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Unmanned Logistics Warmup

I am working on a series on umanned logistics, air, sea and land.

By way of a warm-up, a handful of videos that demonstrates the span of potential solutions…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Qf1d3uE5w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnapbzZDDRI

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Think Defence hopes to start sensible conversations about UK defence issues, no agenda or no campaign but there might be one or two posts on containers, bridges and mexeflotes!

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  1. Simon257 March 24, 2014

    Hi TD

    What happens when the unmanned vehicle starts to have unforeseen problems like this:

    http://felixstowedocker.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/container-ship-arnold-maersk-lost-18.html

    Or this:

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHCccVDg_hc

    Or coping with severe bad weather:
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6kfUtEMtinA

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJO0SCFQLg

    Just a couple of inches of the white stuff can make driving a loaded HGV a nightmare. I’ve been stuck a few times, it took a lot of patience, and all of my knowledge to get my truck free, by myself. Although the last time I got caught a wrecker had to come and drag me out! And skidding on ice, once that happens all you can is pray!!

    You will always need the human element, when things go wrong!

  3. S O March 24, 2014

    There was a technology for an auxiliary-powered towed howitzer (I think the 45cal classic) which was unusually nimble on marhes becuase it learned by cable about the steering of the towing vehicle and reacted accordingly.

    I seem to remember an extension of this approach; a truck following another truck in its path, halving the qty of drivers. This was IIRC 1980’s or 1990’s technology.

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