The Possible Usage of Unmanned Vehicles in Military Transportation

Abstract

Providing the appropriate logistical support within that movement and transportation plays an important role in successful military missions. The means and methods of our armed forces have been transformed due to the change in warfare during the last few decades, but military transportation remains the same in spite of the new challenges.  Unmanned vehicles can be the revolutionary solution to this problem. Unmanned vehicles could be a crucial part of the improvement of military transportation. On the one hand using autonomous vehicles for transportation has a huge impact on risking human life, on the other hand they increase the level of operational flexibility.  In addition, they influence the decision making process and transportation planning and coordination in a positive way. Operating unmanned vehicles instead of traditional ones is significantly better from the point of view of economy and the protection of the environment. In spite the fact that unmanned vehicles contain precise and modern technologies in order to substitute the human driver, these devices can go wrong or get damaged anytime. So operating unmanned vehicles in military transportation has not only advantages it also carries the risk.