Tech Talk

February 2005

Army Scrutinizing Stealthy, Clean Vehicle

edited by Robert H. Williams

The U.S. Army in conjunction with Quantum Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has developed a speedy off-road vehicle that is powered by a compressed hydrogen fuel cell and is capable of producing electrical power for surveillance, targeting and communications.

Called the Aggressor Alternative Mobility Vehicle, it offers superior performance to gasoline or diesel powered platforms, is “virtually silent” in its operating modes and boasts a “reduced thermal signature,” noted a company spokesman.

He added that the Aggressor is exceptionally clean. It does not “produce any emissions throughout the different operating modes.”

The vehicle will be tested at several Army posts during the course of the next six months.

Meanwhile, Dennis Wend, executive director of the Army’s National Automotive Center, suggested the Aggressor stands as a “model for more efficient, high performance stealth vehicles through the use of fuel cells and advanced hybrid electric drivetrain technologies.”

It is the first fuel cell vehicle produced for the Army.

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