Robot Mounted, Remote Operated Micro Weapon System for Non-Violent IED Defeat
Nahum Orlev · 2010
In recent years, the use of robots during military activities is growing. It is growing in numbers and volume. Significant growth is shown in Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles –SUGV (about 8000 in Afganistan). Those SUGVs are used to dismount the new threat – IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices). Terror utilizing IEDs has become the main source of casualties in armies engaged in military activities.