PLA working to develop unmanned armored vehicles by refitting old ones

The Chinese military is researching converting its armored fighting vehicles into unmanned ones, according to a senior officer of the People's Liberation Army.

"Unmanned ground vehicles will play a very important role in future ground combat. Realizing that, we have begun to explore how to refit our armored vehicles into unmanned ones," said Major General Xu Hang, president of the PLA Academy of Armored Forces Engineering in Beijing.

"Though we have yet to develop unmanned tanks, I think it is an irreversible trend that computers will gradually replace humans to control those fighting machines."