This undergraduate thesis analyses primary and secondary resources, carries out a case study, and tries to determine how the use and development of unmanned ground vehicles affect operations and structure of modern armies. Primary sources used are army doctrines, and strategies for development and use. Secondary sources used are articles on history, development, use, implementation, and problems of unmanned ground vehicles. At the start, basic unmanned vehicle terminology is explained, and beginning advancements in this field are described. Secondly, it focuses on the role of unmanned ground vehicles in the army, its goals regarding the capacity to act, it defines different types of such vehicles, as well as their implementation in armies, and lastly outlines and describes their main tasks. This thesis tries to determine how the use of mentioned vehicles impacts human operator. The second half includes a USA and Russia case study – these countries were chosen because they are both integrating unmanned ground vehicles in their army. Similarities and differences between the strategies for development and use of two chosen countries are reviewed.
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