Robots will appear in the Russian army
The new Russian-made tank, which the designers will create in the near future on the basis of Armata’s heavy armored platform, will be equipped with a remote-controlled digital gun. According to many experts, the appearance of such a gun in the Russian armed forces will be able to bring our country closer to the development and creation of autonomous tanks-robots.
According to a source in the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC), the tank will have a fully digital control system. The armor of the tank, through which no external signal can pass, will be able to protect communication channels from suppression and interception. In this multi-layer protection - "a capsule of armor and composites" - will separate the crew of the tank from the ammunition and from the compartment with fuel. It is expected that such protection will be able to withstand a direct hit from the guns of various types of modern tanks.
According to expert Viktor Murakhovsky, who is the editor-in-chief of Arsenal magazine, the appearance of vehicles with a new combat platform will radically change the structure of the ground forces itself, the military will have to look for new tactics. Murakhovsky notes that these machines, created on the basis of "Almaty", will act more confidently at the forefront - this also applies to boom machines, and launchers of demining systems, and to heavy flamethrower systems.
According to the expert, such tanks will be much more “tenacious” than the existing models, and this means that to perform the same tasks, new tanks need less. The Russian army suffices two thousand such machines. Murakhovsky does not exclude that after the new Armata appears in the Russian army, the T-80, T-90 and T-72 tanks, which are now actively undergoing the modernization process, will be sent to the storage bases.
Konstantin Sivkov, Doctor of Military Sciences, as well as the First Vice-President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, predicts an approaching era of technology that will be completely autonomous and robotic. According to Sivkov, the appearance of an unmanned cannon will bring Russia closer to the moment when a fully autonomous tank is created that can be controlled remotely or that will hit the target in automatic mode.
Sivkov said that tanks-robots will act on the front line, which is the most dangerous, and after them will go manned vehicles with crews who will be engaged in solving complex problems. At the same time, he added that the USSR was developing such tanks, but they could not be realized due to the collapse of the state.
The Russian Ministry of Defense promises that deliveries of the new tank to Russian troops will begin in 2015. See the car itself "in the metal" can be earlier.
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