Moscow Forming First Robotic Military Units
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 64
The Russian Uranium-9 military robot (Source: NVO)
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has confirmed plans to create the country’s first robotic military unit. These plans draw on existing research and development (R&D) within the domestic defense industry, which has made advances in the field of applying artificial intelligence (AI) for military purposes and experimented with prototype systems during military operations in Syria (Tvzvezda.ru, April 9). While the formation of the country’s first military robotic unit is a step forward in the process of using AI to increase Russian combat capabilities, significant challenges stand in the way of effectively introducing this as a force multiplier. Nevertheless, Shoigu’s comments indicate that the defense ministry is moving beyond robotic systems to improve demining, streamline command and control (C2), or to enhance the acc
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Summary: Cyber threats to nuclear command, control, and communications systems (NC3) attract increasing concerns. Carnegie and partners have developed a platform of unclassified knowledge to enable U.S.-China engagement on this issue.
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This paper was produced through a three-year dialogue led by Carnegie and the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, with inputs and review provided by American and Chinese technical and military experts.
The Carnegie team consisted of George Perkovich, Ariel E. Levite, Lyu Jinghua, Katherine Charlet, Michael D. Swaine, and Wyatt Hoffman. The U.S. experts consulted included Robert Schmidle and John A. Davis. (Please note that the list of Carnegie experts includes some individuals that have since departed Carnegie.)
TK509: Russia’s futuristic new gun How the US AR-15 rifle was reborn in Russia.
The TK509 is a semi-automatic pistol with blowback. The weapon is marketed as smoothbore due to the new .345 TK cartridge and 305-mm Paradox-style barrel (i.e. it has a section with grooves to stabilize the bullet and twist it during flight).
It is made by Molot Arms and Tekhkrim from Vyatskiye Polyany (800 km east of Moscow). The former produces aircraft-grade aluminum barrels for .345 TK cartridges; the latter assembles the weapon and applies chrome plating and a protective, decorative coating.
According to Vadim Kozyulin, professor at the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, the TK509 is the ideological continuation and development of the US AR-15 platform the main competitor of the AK in the small arms market.