Welcome to the battlefield of the future.
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
Apr 14 2021, 10:38 ET
Updated: Apr 14 2021, 10:40 ET
THE Russian military has announced that it is lining up its first unit featuring robot tanks.
The remotely piloted machines, called Uran-9, can be armed with machine guns, flamethrowers and anti-tank missiles.
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They ll work alongside troops to assist combat, carry out reconnaissance and offer fire support.
It comes as tensions between the US President Joe Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin escalate over the Ukraine crisis.
Putin is amassing forces on the frontiers of its neighbouring country, a move that has led calls from Biden to stand down or risk retribution.
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https://www.afinalwarning.com/510976.html (Natural News) Russia will soon integrate robotic killer tanks armed with a variety of weapons into its military forces. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the tanks on April 9 at the 766th Production and Technological Enterprise, the factory where the tanks were made, in Nakhabino near Moscow.
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced on the same day: “The first unit with strike robots will be set up in the Russian Armed Forces to operate five Uran-9 robotic systems or 20 combat vehicles.”
A Uran-9 robotic system is an unmanned ground vehicle equipped with 30-millimeter automatic guns, anti-tank missiles and flamethrowers. It is the latest model of the Uran series after the mine clearance robot Uran-6 and firefighting Uran-14. These models will be joined by other similar robots that the Russian army plans to develop in the future.