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Originally Posted by Matt Leese
They're not looking for combat vehicles. They're looking to make automated resupply vehicles. This is particularly pertinent given that supply convoys were being heavily targetted by the insurgency in Iraq. If you don't have actual people driving the trucks, it becomes a lot safer to run the convoys. It's also much cheaper for the military (people are expensive). Remember that for every one combat soldier there are something like 10 soldiers behind the lines to make sure that one can fight (those numbers stem from World War 2; I'm not sure what the current figures are but I'd bet them to be higher if anything).
Matt
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Granted, bad word choice. But even if all war were to end tomorrow, and we could all frolic in the fields, such devices would still have to deal with traffic.