The military is waking up to the need to adapt frontline logistics. With killrates of 90% for traditional trucks in the Ukraine war, without resupply missions by UAVs/UGVs holding positions is impossible now.
This is being announced to us or everyone right now? It's only around 10 weeks away: that seems surprisingly close. Have some folk already been made aware & have they had time to build for this DARPA Challenges? Generally I think of them as longer running challenges.
> Generally I think of them as longer running challenges.
Given how outlandish the ratio requirement is compared to currently available products I expect this one will be recurring for at least a few years similar to what happened with the self driving challenge 20ish years ago.
Really just a battery challenge.
Possibly against laws of physics at energy density of 4x?
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Darpa.mil got slashdotted? Wow. The folks who invented the internet...
The military is waking up to the need to adapt frontline logistics. With killrates of 90% for traditional trucks in the Ukraine war, without resupply missions by UAVs/UGVs holding positions is impossible now.
If the truck killrate is 90% what is it for troop transports? How do infantry get in and out of position?
> How do infantry get in and out of position?
They don't. Life expectancy of a Russian on the front line is hours. You just send in another wave.
If that were the case then there wouldn't be anyone there to receive the resupply to begin with.
This is being announced to us or everyone right now? It's only around 10 weeks away: that seems surprisingly close. Have some folk already been made aware & have they had time to build for this DARPA Challenges? Generally I think of them as longer running challenges.
> Generally I think of them as longer running challenges.
Given how outlandish the ratio requirement is compared to currently available products I expect this one will be recurring for at least a few years similar to what happened with the self driving challenge 20ish years ago.
this competition was announced October last year. IIRC registration ended sometime Q1 this year.
You think your life is heavy, huh? You might want to check out this challenge...