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Soldiers look for better reaction time, increased lethality with modernization

by US Army
March 16, 2010
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DONA ANA RANGE, N.M.: Soldiers from 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 5th Brigade, 1st Armored Division, used the Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle and unmanned aerial systems in defensive and offensive training scenarios to improve awareness of hostile targets and increase reaction time and lethality of their fighting vehicles.

“If you know it’s coming from this direction then you can minimize your area of scan and be ready – so it gives us quicker reaction time,” said 2nd Lt. Steven Northrop, a mechanized platoon leader with C Company, 1st CAB.

The week-long exercise that took place the last week in February integrated the SUG-V and UAS into the unit’s gunnery, said Capt. Andrew Hitchings, the assistant operations officer for 1st CAB.

Hitchings said the scenarios were created to leverage the capabilities of the systems to detect targets earlier and make the crews more lethal on the gunnery range.

“This is the first time that this has ever been done – using these future systems and live ammunition with tanks and Bradleys,” said Hitchings.

The unit used the SUG-V to identify whether personnel on the ground were friend or foe and for hasty surveillance to determine if an improvised explosive device was on the roadway, said Hitchings.

Spc. Logan Rourke, a gunner from C Company, 1st CAB, said has worked with the SUG-V before and believes they are helpful.

“[The SUG-V] can go where we don’t want to,” said Rourke.

In the scenarios, the tanks and Bradleys operated in conjunction with the UAS overhead, to spot simulated enemy targets closing in from a distance and related the information to engage those targets.

In respect to the use of the UAS; Hitchings said because a gunnery range does not necessarily reflect real life, but rather it tests the skills of the crews, the evaluation of UAS was more challenging.

“Given a more developed range with some hills [and] some berms in which vehicles could move behind – then it would definitely be a valid way to test crews and their ability to acquire targets using these systems,” said Hitchings.

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