Family of Tactical Unmanned Vehicles (FTUV)
Family of Tactical Unmanned Vehicles (FTUV) is a joint Army/Marine Corps effort to provide commanders a family of reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition UGV's that are properly sized to operate in a variety of tactical situation. There are emerging requirements to provide small, man portable unmanned vehicle systems to support the missions of light military and special operations forces. The program meets mission needs in the areas of reconnaissance for Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT).
The success and lessons learned from FTUV has led to the decision to create two separate program lines. Multiple user tests with prototype systems such as SARGE and URBOT, conducted by soldiers and Marines have defined requirements. The MATILDA, a prototype system, is being procured by Civil Support
Detachments as a near term solution. The two new programs being developed are Gladiator and MPRS.
Gladiator has evolved from the FTUV program efforts to meet USMC requirements for an unmanned system
that can conduct scout and surveillance missions in support of dismounted infantry in a shore to
objective maneuver mission. The Man Portable Robotic System (MPRS) will meet the joint requirements
for a small man portable robot to conduct sewer and tunnel reconnaissance for US Army engineers and to
perform reconnaissance and surveillance for Army and USMC dismounted infantry forces in a MOUT
environment.
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