Mobility

• Operate day and night under all weather conditions

• Operate in all rural and urban terrains

• Swim across slowly flowing rivers and other bodies of water without additional preparation

• Move and perform missions without active human intervention over a round-trip distance of at least 300 km

• Move at variable speeds depending on the situation but up to at least 120 km/h on roads

• Remain in position for at least 30 days without human intervention

Mission packages

• Local and global terrain, vegetation, obstacle sensing

• Highly sophisticated sensors and range finders

• Highly sophisticated ATR that can discriminate among vehicles (combat and commercial) and humans (friend, foe, and noncombatant)

• Sensors able to read detailed terrain, vegetation, obstacle, and other data that can be downloaded upon command to update global databases

• Stealth capabilities that make enemy detection of any UGV very difficult

• Precisely targetable, highly lethal kill systems; “one shot, one-kill”

• Lethal self-protection package

Communications

• Secure local area network allows all UGVs to pass information among themselves

• Secure wide area network allows team to call for backup support and to communicate with base station as well as other networked systems, both manned and unmanned.

Human control

• Program various movement, communications, intelligence, rules of engagement, decision making, and other initial inputs

• Monitor communications from UGV team for programmed reports or situations requiring human guidance

• Override in case of changes in situation

Automated UGV self-control and decision making

• Automatic “intelligent” decision making based on programmed human instructions augmented or modified with real-time UGV sensing of the situation

• Fully automated movement; capable of moving as a team or infiltrating separately

• Killers able to launch hunters to gather intelligence on terrain, vegetation, obstacles, or human activity

• Upon arrival at a mission location all UGVs able to close down all energy dependent systems except for the most energy efficient; capable of “waking up” other systems as the situation warrants

• Only attacks enemy forces that are within its ability to devastatingly destroy; otherwise, follows programmed decision rules

• Understands enemy tactics and reacts to enemy actions with coordinated UGV tactics, as necessary

Other

• Minimum size of one team is 10 medium-sized “killer” UGVs that each internally (in a marsupial fashion) carries up to 5 small hunter/observer ground or aerial UGVs

• Very high level of maintenance reliability; self-diagnosis and repair of maintenance problems

Human support

• Control is by on-duty staff officer at appropriate headquarters

• Maintenance beyond scope of UGV and other programming requirements performed by a small team of humans (no more that 10) to support up to five Hunter-Killer teams (approximately 50 killers and 250 hunters)