Russian Uran-9 armed unmanned ground vehicle Breaking Defense:
Breaking Defense: Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Russia has big ambitions for unmanned systems, said CNA scholar Sam Bendett, but it faces the same technical hurdles as the US — and shares the same concerns about human control.
WASHINGTON: Russia has created a new robotic combat unit of Uran-9 unmanned ground vehicles, which have been battle-tested in Syria, though with mixed results. It’s also developing an experimental unmanned version of its T-14 Armata tank, unmanned derivatives of the Cold War T-72 and BMP-3, and new long-range drones called Okhotnik and Altius.
But Russia’s quest for battle robots faces many of the same technical and policy problems as the US, said CNA and CNAS scholar Samuel Bendett, and Vladimir Putin is on a much tighter budget. Russia isn’t manufacturing useless Potemkin robots for propaganda purposes, but they’re not building the Terminator, either.
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WNU Editor: This blog has been covering Russia's progress in developing a robot Army for a long time. I am the first to admit that they have made a lot of progress in making these weapon platforms more effective and definitely very deadly.
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