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RUSSIA IS PREPARING to test military robots in the Astrakhan region, an industrial outpost on the coast of the Caspian sea, about 1,500 kilometres (1,000 miles) south of Moscow.
The Moscow Times quotes Major Dmitry Andre yev, a representative for the Defence Ministry’s Strategic Missile Forces, as saying preparation for the testing is in its final stage.
The testing is part of a defence ministry’s initiative to deploy robots in protection of the intercontinental ballistic missile launch sites before 2020, according to The Moscow Times.
The news come about one month after the Russian defence ministry approved an ambitious program that aims at creating advanced military robotics before 2025.
Military robotics is a top priority for Russia’s military future, given the length of the Russian border and the need for military operations in places unsuitable for humans, like the Arctic.
Back in 2010, RT (formerly known as ‘Russia Today’) broadcast this segment on the Russian military robotic program:
Russia’s military bots aren’t quite like the movie ‘Transformers’, if that’s what you had in mind. What Russia is testing is more similar to a small-scale automatic tank, controlled remotely by a human.
Below is some more recent footage of the robots to give you a better idea of what they are working on. It was also released by RT:
- Stephano Pozzebon/Business Insider
I for one welcome our new robotic overlords
“The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea.
They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain.
In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots.
And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots”
More anti Russia propaganda. Post an article telling us about what the USA has been developing. The USA is developing robots too. The warmongering usa is developing weapons 100s of times more dangerous than these robots.
How is it anti-Russian?
@Bertie – I’m looking for the anti-Russia part of the story and I can’t find it. Perhaps you would enlighten me?
As much as you mightn’t agree with US foreign policy, our interests are much more aligned with them than with Russia. There will always be superpowers in this world, we should just hope that a rouge nation (like Russia) doesn’t acquire too much power so that it puts western democracies at risk
The article only comes across as anti-Russian if you’re wearing pro-Russian blinkers….
Rouge is that red or a rogue!!!!
It isn’t that difficult to spot the anti Russian part: In the 2nd line it says “should we be alarmed”. The Journal has never wrote anything like that in an article about what the USA is developing. Why should we be alarmed? Is Russia, the “rogue” nation as someone put it killed 1 million plus innocent civilians this century? The USA has. Has Russia invaded several sovereign nations in the last 50 years? Has Russia armed, funded, and trained terrorist groups such as ISIL?
@Bertie –
‘Has Russia invaded several sovereign nations in the last 50 years?’
Are you having a laugh? Have you never heard of Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan, Georgia and Ukraine?
Yeah for Russia, saviour of our universe! Wait no, they’re a shower of murderous bast@rds too, my bad.
How about South Ossetia? How about cyber attacks on Estonia and Latvia? Annexation of Crimea? Excursions into Swedish waters? And Polish?
And let’s not forget Hungary…
If anything this is making me pro Russia! How cool do killer robots sound?!
“Has Russia invaded several sovereign nations in the last 50 years? ”
They forcefully occupied half of Europe for the best part of 60.
But Jason_Russia broke up the union and handed nations their soverignty under the promise that NATO wouldn’t expand ……The West Lied and NATO expanded and is now sh**ting on Russias door step doing everything in its power to provoke Russia with false flags etc.
“But Jason_Russia broke up the union and handed nations their soverignty under the promise that NATO wouldn’t expand ”
I didn’t realise that giving a nation their rights to sovereignty back had to come with pre-conditions.
You’re also blatantly wrong about the non-NATO expansion part. The agreement, which was a verbal and non-binding agreement, was that NATO wouldn’t actively pursue former Warsaw Pact members. They also agreed that NATO could accept former Warsaw Pact members should these nations actively seek NATO membership without coercion.
Russia had absolutely no problem with NATO bordering it for 10 years. How do you explain that Frank?
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Thankfully we have killer robots to combat this threat.
Wait, I’m getting confused now.
The T-800 is only around the corner!
America has been blowing people up with killer flying robots for a few years now. Down with all killer robots.
You certainly hit the nail on the head.
They have already started to kill their own citizens abroad with these devices.
Frank you are such a hypocrite. You complain about the US funding and arming Islamists and then cry about the US killing Islamists with drones.
If your an enemy of islamism, your an enemy of Frank.
I like trains
Mick Jordan_ The US are very solective on who they bump off with their killer Drones.
You can be damn sure they will protect their head hackers and only attack those that are deamed a threat to national security. ( Those that expose US Government corruption)
No rocket science there Mick..
God we just get more and more clever don’t we. Next thing you know we will have robotic food aid drones that deliver to those in need and robotic farming droids that work to create farmable land in poverty stricken villages around the third world. I know I know I’m a dreamer, better just stick to war for the moment, somewhere there’s an appetite for this kind of thing
They’ll get a taste for vodka and that’s how World War Three will begin…
Has anyone even told Optimus Prime?
Putin is more worried about his oligarch friends turning on him now that the price of oil is in free fall
“Russia is training killer robots” – and the U.S isn’t? The Journal could have written an article entitled, “The U.S trains killer robots”. The continued Russia bashing from the mainstream will start to make people view Russia as an enemy to be overcome.
Well thejynxeffect, they’re doing a good job of that already themselves without the media helping.
Maybe they could have robot wars instead of using and killing people in the name of religion or oil or whatever they are fighting for…
There’s a reason I don’t fly Aeroflot. The Russians aren’t very good at engineering. The only reason the were involved in the space race was due to “Project Paperclip”whereby they recruited Nazi scientists after WWII. They’ll probably have to use Google Android to control these things….
Hah.. one thing though.. “Project Paperclip” was US project.. :DDDD
“Operation Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) program in which over 1,500 German scientists, technicians, and engineers from Nazi Germany and other foreign countries were brought to the United States for employment in the aftermath of World War II” .. guess no further comments needed..
Mr Putin, i bow to thee, good sir. You are playing a blinder.
This is nothing that hasn’t already existed for a long time. The US used piloted drones as far back as the 1940′s when they flew radio-controlled B29′s over nuclear testing sites to test what would happen to a piloted aircraft.
The robots shown in the above video’s are clearly remote-controlled and not automated which means the Russians are simply testing a scaled-up version of what NATO is currently fielding.
Terrible. Down with that sort of thing!
Terrible stuff altogether. Down with that sort of thing
Terrible. Down with that sort of thing
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