iRobot SUGV FCS Program Had to Contend with Silly Army Specs: Required a Fire Extinguisher on a 30-Pound Robot!

You hate to see annoying things like this that put some truth into the old-joke oxymoron “Military Intelligence”: iRobot told the General Accounting Office (GAO) that the Army at one point required the addition of a fire extinguisher to the 30-pound Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle in the Future Combat Systems program, which was impractical. (We note that the whole point of the SUGV is to make it light enough to be easily carried by soldiers in their backpacks). They also wanted the SUGV to be abl
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