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stanley becher htiest veterans, joining the operation to free the World War II aircraft carrier USS Intrepid from deep Hudson River mud that has blocked efforts to move the ship to a dry dock for renovation, officials announced Saturday.A fleet of civilian tug boats tried Monday to pull the 27,000-ton ship out of the berth where it has been serving as the popular Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum, but the carrier moved only a few feet before its 16-foot propellers snagg
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The U.S. Army, working with Lockheed Martin, has successfully demonstrated the ability of fully autonomous co
stanley mug nvoys to operate in urban environments and under difficult conditions. It all part of the military ongoing effort to eliminate soldiers from the equation. The demonstration took place at Fort Hood, and it part of the Army and Marine Corp Autonomous Mobility Appliqu茅 System AMAS program. The successful test marked the completion of the program Capabilities Advancement Demonstration CAD . The AMAS system is aimed at augmenting the safety and security of human drivers in a convoy mission, while the purpose of CAD is to completely eliminate the need for soldiers to occupy and/or drive these vehicles in warzones or other hazardous areas. During the test, various driverless vehicles 鈥?like the Army M915 truck and a Palletized Loading System PLS vehicle 鈥?had to navigate hazards and obsta
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stanley cup stalled and passing vehicles, pedestrians, and traffic circles in both urban and rural test areas. According to Lockheed, the software and hardware driving the system performed exactly as designed. To work, the integrated system uses a high performance LIDAR sensor, a second GPS receiver, and additional algorithms. The system comes in the form a kit that can be installed on virtually any military vehicle. Gotta say, that im
