Ep. 002: Robot Wars - The Robotic Fighting Echelon

Warfighter Podcast

Tom & Colin discuss the forthcoming demo of the new Improbable platform that is scheduled for an early demonstration this week. Also some comments about the international breadth of listeners and guests scheduled for later episodes - please keep the suggestions coming.

Our guest on this show is Steen Bisgaard who heads up an Australian startup developing robotic targets for training, as well as decoys and robots for use in offensive actions in the real battlefield. Steen discusses the latest developments in this field and where he thinks robots will be used in the future, either as part of the training workup or as part of a hybrid fighting force.

This area is one to watch and we will no doubt come back to this subject in the future.

As ever, we are joined by Andy Fawkes who provides a digest of the recent modelling & simulation news, with some discussion around the more interesting topics.

Hosts:

• Tom Constable: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-constable/
• Colin Hillier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinhillier/

Guest:

• Steen Bisgaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steen-bisgaard-3597b110b/

Episode Sponsor:

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MS&T News Links:

Andy Fawkes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyfawkes/

eVTOL:

• https://www.halldale.com/articles/20414-mst-building-the-evtol-training-nexus
• https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article/2850369/afwerx-agility-prime-a-new-era-of-aerospace/

National XR Month:

• https://www.halldale.com/articles/20405-mst-us-congress-is-helping-expand-the-xr-envelope
• https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/1399/text?r=3&s=2

Operation Interflex:

• https://www.halldale.com/articles/20417-australia-to-provide-critical-training-to-ukrainian-military
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Interflex