Fped

[♪techno beat♪] We're the firefighters from the Unified Fire Authority Station 103 in Salt Lake City, Utah. We'd like to give a special thanks to our troops overseas and thanks for watching Army Newswatch. [fireworks] Welcome back. Looking for the next best invention? Well, look no further. Sergeant Ashleigh Torres went to a showcasing of the newest technologies hitting the market. Some are quite surprising. Take a look. Fire in the hole! [explosion] It's a glimpse at what could be. At the Force Protection Equipment Demonstration, or FPED, vendors joined together to showcase technologies that could improve warfare, tactics, techniques, and procedures for the military. The MOASS, or Mother of All Shooting Systems, is designed to take soldiers out from behind the gun. In security situations you'd like to mount one on a building, use it for surveillance, and have the ability to take out a target if it's deemed to be necessary and operate it from a remote location, where you can put a person in a position of comfort and you can mount the gun perhaps even in a place that would be not comfortably accessible for a human. Controlled with a joystick, the operator can adjust the weapon and zoom in on a target up to half a mile away. On the hill we have a plastic mannequin that's about 300 yards, acquire that target, and ***! he's gone. Land, sea, or air, FPED's variety has something for every type of mission, like the Aquabot. It's an underwater robot. It's an ROV, Remotely Operated Vehicle. This one's rated to 200 meters depth with a 250-meter range. They're all tethered, and that's the only way for underwater equipment to really get real time data. This one is a 4-thruster vehicle. You have one vertical thruster and then you have two horizontal thrusters that allow you to spin, go forward and back. And what you also have, you have a lateral thruster which will allow you to move the vehicle laterally and stay perpendicular to your actual target. The Army has already bought more than 20,000 Aquabots. These displays were a couple of many FPED has to offer. Each one shows the advances of technology for the military and things you may see in the near future.