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Textron Looks To Offer Swim-Capable, Smaller Ripsaw M3 For Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, October 12th, 2022

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Textron Looks To Offer Swim-Capable, Smaller Ripsaw M3 For Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light

Textron Systems' Ripsaw M3 concept demonstrator at the 2022 AUSA conference in Washington, D.C. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

After providing its Ripsaw robotic platform to the Army for experimentation, Textron Systems [TXT] is looking to offer a new swim-capable, smaller version of the system for the Army’s expected upcoming Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light (RCV-L) competition. Textron showcased a concept demonstrator of the new Ripsaw M3 at this week’s Association of the United States Army’s (AUSA) annual conference in Washington, D.C, with a company official highlighting the platform’s modularity and design considerations for potential RCV-L requirements. “It’s intended for us…

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