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SOFIC 2018: MRZR-X supports UK MoD

26th May 2018 - 07:00 GMT | by Andrew White in Tampa, Florida

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Polaris Government and Defense will support the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE) with a single MRZR-X unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), company officials have confirmed.

Speaking to Shephard at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) in Tampa on 22nd May 2018, Polaris Government and Defense European Manager, Steve Canner, described how a single MRZR-X vehicle would conduct a day-long demonstration on 28th June before being handed over to the army for further evaluation.

Due to be conducted on Salisbury Plain, he described how the MRZR-X would be supporting AWE’s “Autonomous Warrior” exercise with particular focus on

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