Prospects for the Use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Artillery Survey

Abstract

: The article deals with the currently realized research of a new survey vehicle of the Czech field artillery, which task will be support of the activity of autonomous and non-autonomous artillery weapon systems. The article describes the basic aspects of artillery survey together with the current progress of the project. Baseline for the article is description of current status of Czech artillery survey and the way it supports the artillery operations. The individual chapters then present the identified variants of the functionality of the gun navigation system and the resulting requirements for the capability of the unmanned artillery survey vehicle. Main focus of the article is to present specific approach which Czech armed forces have in terms of artillery use under degraded and GPS denied operations. All these proposals are presented according to current status of Czech artillery which transitions from non-autonomous 152mm howitzers to the new, NATO standard 155mm autonomous weapon systems.