“These prototypes have been purposely built utilizing what we have learned to date with RCVs and to give us an opportunity to further drive the RCV Campaign of Learning. The prototypes will be used by soldiers in operational experiments to develop the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) that our Brigade Combat Teams will utilize to bring new levels of lethality to our forces through the combining of Manned and Un-Manned Teams (MUM-T).”-Major General Ross Coffman, Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross-Functional Team

At the end of May 2021, the U.S. Army had five new Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) prototypes to play with.  Two types of robot tanks are being tested, RCV-Light and RCV-Medium.  The goal is to have RCVs ready for the 2022 Phase Two Soldier Operational Experiment (SOE, to be held on Fort Hood, Texas).

By the end of June 2021, the RCV-M (nicknamed Ripsaw M5 by its developers, not to be confused with earlier Ripsaw robots) tank began live-fire testing on Fort Dix (Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), New Jersey.

The RCV-M has the usual for a robot M240 machine gun, and for the first time a XM813 main gun: “This is the first system that we’ve developed where we have a gun of this caliber mounted on the robot, a completely unmanned robot, and that is also controlled from a different location or within the manned combat vehicle, it’s certainly unique.”-Cristian Bara, Ground Vehicle Systems Center

The Textron Systems-Howe & Howe Technologies Ripsaw M5 was apparently supposed to be delivered in 2020, but was delayed using the pandemic panic as an excuse.

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