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US Military Still Needs to Catch Up With Engineering Modernization, Senior General Says

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These transformations include new technological capabilities such as artificial intelligence, battlefield robots and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or drones.Manned battlefield vehicles should have robots beside them that can launch UAS, Rainey said. However, Rainey said he agreed with US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George that a separate UAS arm or command should not be set up, at least at the present time.

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US Military Still Needs to Catch Up With Engineering Modernization, Senior General Says

09:50 04.06.2024 (Updated: 10:18 04.06.2024)

© AP Photo / Francisco SecoA U.S. soldier walks past parked armored vehicles and tanks of the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team and 1st Calvary Division, based out of Fort Hood, Texas, as they are unloaded at the port of Antwerp, Belgium, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020.

A U.S. soldier walks past parked armored vehicles and tanks of the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team and 1st Calvary Division, based out of Fort Hood, Texas, as they are unloaded at the port of Antwerp, Belgium, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 04.06.2024

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US armed forces need to push ahead with modernization programs to be able to deal with the revolutionary transformations in land warfare, Army Futures Command chief General James Rainey said that during a meeting at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

These transformations include new technological capabilities such as artificial intelligence, battlefield robots and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or drones.

"We haven't exactly kept pace with engineering modernization," Rainey said on Monday. "We are witnessing the leading edge of a monstrous disruption of the land domain that is coming."

Manned battlefield vehicles should have robots beside them that can launch UAS, Rainey said.

"We need to get into autonomous heavy lift [and] predicate logistics," he said.

However, Rainey said he agreed with US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George that a separate UAS arm or command should not be set up, at least at the present time.