US Army testing self-driving Humvee to see if it can shoot

The US Army is testing a self-driving Humvee truck that it hopes will help soldiers who are trapped in dangerous situations on the battlefield. The Humvee, which is called the'Wingman', is being tested to see if it can accurately identify and shoot targets. Mounted on top of the truck is a .50-caliber The robotic Humvee, pictured, is part of a two-vehicle system called the'Wingman,' which also includes a command and control vehicle that's manned by three soldiers The autonomous remote engagement system is supposed to reduce the time it takes to identify targets by using a'vision-based automatic target detection and user-specified target selection,' the Army said. The Army conducted a live fire exercise using the Wingman Humvee last year, but it hopes to conduct more exercises with more heavily armed ground robots in the next few years, according to Defense One.