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In 2024, IperionX partnered with fastener firm Vegas Fasteners to jointly make fasteners for the US Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC). That DEVCOM component has been hit by funding reductions as attention shifts to drones and missiles. But still, they’re trying to fund robotic vehicles and GM’s new lightweight Infantry Squad Vehicle. These kinds of craft are super important.
Based on a lot of commercially available parts and prioritizing speed and visibility over armor, this is a new, counterintuitively safer, way to get around the battlefield. If I can see and respond to a threat by avoiding or engaging it, and can outrun and outmaneuver it, I’ll be nimble and quick and not so much of a lumbering vehicle confined to the big (ambushable, mineable) main roads.
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