{"id":39564,"date":"2019-04-22T17:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/04\/22\/the-army-wants-a-way-to-map-underground-tunnels-using-ground-robots-and-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:15:23","slug":"the-army-wants-a-way-to-map-underground-tunnels-using-ground-robots-and-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2019\/04\/22\/the-army-wants-a-way-to-map-underground-tunnels-using-ground-robots-and-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Army wants a way to map underground tunnels using ground robots and drones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fighting underground: It is the most primitive, close combat a fighter may ever face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

The Army\u2019s Rapid Equipping Force is looking to industry for a portable way for soldiers to map remote tunnels using either ground robots or drones<\/a>, and they want it fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A request for information posted on the website fbo.gov<\/a> April 15 gives industry 30 days to send information on their model or prototype-ready devices so that soldiers in the field can soon have a way to move beyond flashlights, maps and pencils<\/a> to safely find out what\u2019s waiting for them in dark tunnel passages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past two years, experts with the Army\u2019s Asymmetric Warfare Group through the Maneuver Center of Excellence have been training select groups of soldiers across the force at nearly all of the Army\u2019s brigade combat teams on the fundamentals of fighting underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\t