The Russian ENICS Eleron-10SV surveillance drone. Russian Ministry of Defense photo
David Axe, War Is Boring: Russia Presses Ahead With Combat Robots
In the air and on land.
The Russian military announced on Oct. 30, 2017 that it will begin acquiring the Nerekhta — a ground-combat robot armed with a slew of remotely-operated weapons such as machine guns and rocket launchers.
Col. Oleg Pomazuev, the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense’s Department of Innovation Research, said the Nerekhtas “managed to prove themselves well at the Alabino testing ground,” and that the robots exceeded manned combat vehicles “in a number of parameters.”
The spartan-looking, mid-sized Nerekhta comes in three varieties — combat, transport and artillery reconnaissance – and can be equipped with a 12.7-millimeter or 7.62-millimeter machine gun, as well as a 30-millimeter AG-30M automatic grenade launcher.
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WNU Editor: The Russian military is still far behind whet the U.S. and China are developing .... but they have clearly made a commitment to catch up.
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