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US defence company Oshkosh Defense has unveiled its Family of Multi-Mission Autonomous Vehicles during a key defence expo in the United States.
The Oshkosh Corporation subsidiary introduced the vehicles during the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition earlier this week in Washington DC.
The announced FMAV platforms are designed to directly support modernisation priorities for long-range precision fires, resilient formations and scalable autonomy to deliver ready-now, production-based solutions that reduce risk and increase capabilities to soldiers in contested environments.
“The Army has been clear on the need for autonomous, payload-agnostic platforms that are ready now,” Oshkosh Defense chief programs officer Pat Williams said.
“The Oshkosh Family of Multi-Mission Autonomous Vehicles are engineered on proven tactical vehicles, with scalable autonomy and payload versatility to deliver what the Army needs today with the flexibility to adapt as the battlefield evolves.”
Among the three production-ready variants from the FMAV portfolio, the new Extreme Multi-Mission Autonomous Vehicle or Oshkosh X-MAV is a purpose-built, autonomous-capable launcher (displayed with four Tomahawk land attack missiles) to support the future of long-range munitions.
The Medium Multi-Mission Autonomous Vehicle or Oshkosh M-MAV is designed as a forward-looking solution to the US Army’s most pressing challenges such as delivering advanced navigation, remote operation and automated resupply capabilities to increase survivability, reduce crew burden and enable dispersed, resilient fires formations.
The Light Multi-Mission Autonomous Vehicle or Oshkosh L-MAV is a production-ready autonomous carrier designed for counter-unmanned aerial systems, electronic warfare or resupply to enable immediate operational readiness across formations. The L-MAV was showcased with an AeroVironment Switchblade 600 Loitering Munition and Titan C-UAS.
