Brand New AI Tank: The Israeli Merkava V Barak

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LMCane
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looks pretty bad@ss

fully automated with AI to help the driver and commander "see" 360 degrees around the tank

AgLA06
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AG
Kind of surprised it took this long to integrate this from Apache / fighters to tanks and other armor.
aggiebq02
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@LMCane or @AgLA06, were you both tank crewman/tanker? Keen to learn more about how AI can help in the battle tank as we would like to develop something in this area.
HollywoodBQ
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AG
I was a tanker in the 1990s and I think that video shows it pretty well. The Call of Duty looking target acquisition could help the gunner distinguish between possible targets and what is just background scenery.

There might be some benefit gained through some degree of automated navigation and driving. Of course in a tactical environment, you wouldn't want to be dependent on as many cameras as I've seen on the self-driving Waymo cars in Santa Monica.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/uber-begins-offering-rides-in-self-driving-waymo-cars.html

For gunnery, I would still want a human pulling the trigger because otherwise, I'll bet the opposing force could easily outsmart whatever the AI is designed to attack.

Personally, I had a difficult enough time on the night gunnery range at Fort Hood distinguishing between a stationary cow and a pop up target with a broken heating pad (I'm talking about targets at 1200m - 2000m for all you sharpshooters out there). If your AI was designed to shoot anything that was a certain shape and hot, the enemy could make you expend all your ammo at fake targets. Especially if you had an autoloader.

The American tank crew is more of a Kanban type of assembly line system where if there are delays in one of the steps, the whole process breaks down. So, the Gunner, Tank Commander or Loader (and really even the Driver) could stop the engagement.
https://www.linkedin.com/advice/0/how-can-kanban-improve-your-assembly-line-skills-manufacturing-i2vpc
AgLA06
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No sir. Just find this stuff fascinating.

We've had heads up displays for decades now. Just seems odd with drones above movements and all the technology for F vs F,command vehicles and armor haven't integrated it before now into one cohesive feed for ground officers to command the battlefield.
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