Komodo is controlled remotely. The claimed communication range under line-of-sight conditions is up to 1.5 km. It is also a modular design and can be equipped with various interchangeable equipment, including combat gear. It can carry weapons and has a system to deploy anti-personnel or anti-tank/vehicle mines. For drone defense, it has an automated 25mm autocannon with computer-controlled target detection and aiming/firing.

Komodo is a platform for various weapon systems. Reports indicate that the Skorpion 2 remote-controlled mining system and the MANGART anti-drone system with a 25-mm cannon have been integrated onto it.

Other equipment includes sensors and detectors, including devices for detecting chemical and radiological substances, temperature, oxygen, and explosive gases, as well as lidar and a weather station.

Komodo has made combat engineering work easier and more efficient. It wasn't always that way. For example, on August 12, 1943, as the U.S. 3^rd Infantry Division pressed German troops across northern Sicily, the enemy blew up part of the coastal road near Cape Calava, dropping a 48-meter section into the sea and leaving a yawning gap to block the American advance.

The division engineers promptly began building a bridge to span the gap. Ace war correspondent Ernie Pyle reported on the engineers at work and later wrote about weary men battling fatigue as they worked well into the night, under great pressure to finish as soon as possible, wrestling equipment into place while risking imminent death from either accident or enemy harassing fire.

At one point, Pyle watched an engineer drag an air hose in the dark. As he passed soldiers sleeping by the roadside, the hose snagged on one man's feet. Tugging at the hose, the engineer looked down at the soldier and said: "If you're not working, get the hell out of the way." Whereupon Lucian K. Truscott, the division commander, "got up and moved further back without saying a word."

James F Dunnigan