With its mission-configurable design, GRUNT can mount an advanced RCWS with shot detection and auto-tracking or transport over 900 kg of payload for 290 km per charge at speeds up to 30 kph on both paved and unpaved roads. Its hybrid drive extends range while reducing acoustic and thermal signatures, enhancing survivability on the battlefield.
Evolving from the ARION-SMET program, GRUNT marks the next stage in Hanwha’s UGV roadmap—advancing toward hybrid platforms with greater autonomy, manned–unmanned teaming, and AI-enabled mission planning.
As future battlefields demand versatility, Hanwha remains committed to delivering unmanned solutions that enhance combat effectiveness while protecting soldiers from the most dangerous missions.
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- It would be useful for delivering supplies to soldiers fighting on the front lines or transporting the wounded to ensure they remain in combat. Equipped with a fully automatic shotgun and thermal imaging instead of a machine gun, it would also be effective at capturing drones.- When it was being planned and built, the vague idea was that drones could be used for reconnaissance and other purposes. But now that we've seen that not only our forces but also the enemy are using small drones indiscriminately on a battlefield, I think we need to quickly shift our approach. Because small drones are so fast and agile, the machine gun unmanned turrets currently being developed will have a hard time capturing them. Drone nets are physically limited, and collision drones are unlikely to be efficient given the space available for their loading.
Considering the cost, it seems difficult to adopt equipment like local jamming. Since traditional unmanned gun turrets are essentially designed for ground use, I wonder if it might be a good idea to design and build a separate anti-aircraft unmanned gun turret. I've seen shotguns kill quite a few drones, but if developing expensive, dedicated warheads and such is difficult, perhaps a machine gun based on a regular automatic shotgun, creating a feeding belt, and then building an anti-aircraft turret could provide some self-defense.
Of course, it should automatically track drones and respond with fire, and to minimize the drone's blind spot, it would be appropriate to make it round to cover the area in a hemispherical shape. Since it's not for long-range shooting, but rather to chase fast-moving drones, a small and agile design would save weight and cost. The turret equipment that's been installed now should be optimized so that it only has the ability to detect, track, and fire drones, leaving out the unnecessary parts. In fact, that equipment could easily be destroyed if a drone carrying a mortar dropped it from the sky. I really hope they consider equipping it with a drone defense device. If they just prepared many interchangeable options for the turret space according to the necessary operations or battlefield situations, I think first sales, whether in Korea or overseas, would happen a little faster.
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