The military domain is full of acronyms that reflect platforms, concepts of operations and myriad other facets that dictate and regulate life among those that dwell in the space. The growth in recent decades of uncrewed systems and their integration into operations has given rise to even more - in particular, those attempting to define the future relationship between machines and their human operators. This relationship, to date, is perhaps most suitably referred to as MUM-T (manned-unmanned teaming), as it best articulates that robotics and machine platforms - aside from the advantages of cost and attritibility compared to crewed platform counterparts - offer distinct benefits at the tactical level of the battlespace. That is to say, such systems have a here-and-now impact as to what happens in the field of battle, be it in real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), strike or other roles.
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