This is what we should be doing with all of our reserves and old vehicles:
1960'larda üretim hattından çıkan bir tank, Eurosatory fuarında içinde mürettebat olmadan ve üzerinde bir taretle yeniden sahneye çıktı.
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Cold War-era tank transformed into UGV.
A tank that rolled off the French production line in the 1960s reappeared at the Eurosatory exhibition, but without a crew and still bearing a turret. According to Defence Blog, S2M Equipment and KNDS France unveiled REFURBOT at the Eurosatory in Paris. The system, called REFURBOT, is a modernized AMX-30 tank converted into an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) using KNDS' TOXO robotic kit.
KNDS’s TOXO kit is known as a package containing the autonomous and remote control systems needed to drive, steer, and operate a vehicle that is no longer occupied. Mounting the kit onto the hull of an existing vehicle, rather than designing a new unmanned platform from scratch, is not a new idea. However, doing it on this scale, on a chassis as large and heavily armored as a 36-ton tank, sets REFURBOT apart from other examples.
Instead of the AMX-30’s original manned turret and 105 mm Modèle F1 gun, REFURBOT carries the ARX-25, a remotely controlled weapon station built around KNDS’s 25M811 automatic cannon firing 25mm x 137 rounds.
