Russian Army to Unveil New Robotic Vehicles in 2014

[Ryan Ruck]

Russian Army to Unveil New Robotic Vehicles in 2014

August 7, 2013

The Russian military will next year unveil initial prototypes of robotic combat vehicles featuring tank-like tracked chassis and hybrid engines, a deputy defense minister said Wednesday.

“It's a unique robotic vehicle … capable of performing a wide range of combat tasks, primarily including minesweeping and, in the future, direct involvement in combat action on the battlefield,” Col. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko told reporters.

The general added that the prototypes were being based on foreign technologies and components, but future vehicles would feature domestic components.

Ostapenko said the Defense Ministry had drafted a targeted program on procurement of robotic vehicles for defense purposes, which would allow Russian manufacturers to build, by 2020-2025, enough robotic vehicles to ensure Russia’s national security.

He also said the creation of the so-called Military Robotics Center, which was announced in December, would be completed in 2014.

“We have already selected core personnel and set up several research labs as part of the center,” Ostapenko said.

[MinutemanCO]

Soon from our friends in Skynet, sorry, Russia... and so it begins.

[American Patriot]

Well... the Terminator did have a Russian.. er.. Austrian accent...

[vector7]

Sounds familar...

Armata "- Russian step towards robot-tanks

27/03/2012 10:08.
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The new Russian tank - which has to appear in 2015. - Have the "top digital" with the spacing control



* Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defence autooklopnotenkovske Russia, Major-General Alexander Shevchenko, said the other day that the project "Armata" already implemented known military factory "Uralvagonzavod"

* Armor tank will be such that the channels of connection with the command to protect the crew and the interception and jamming. Because the new armor will not be able to pass any external signal

* The crew will be multi-layered armor and composite materials will be totally protected from anything that can happen with a tank engine, its fuel tanks and supply of grenades

* Poptredsednik Academy of geopolitical problems, doctor of military sciences Konstantin Sivkov believes that the emergence of `tank gun crew which does not need Russia` very close `the production of fully autonomous tank, which will manage the spacing, while a tank will I be able to destroy targets in an automatic mode '

* "In the future battles will go forward tanks-robots that will operate where it is most dangerous. Only for them to go with tanks crews, "predicts Sivkov.

New Russian tank "Armata" - which should appear by 2015. year - will have a `top` with digital control spacing. A crew of a tank will be located in an isolated blindiranoj capsule that will be able to withstand a direct hit of all existing modern tanks!

"A tank will appear as a result of the larger project" Armata "and will have a fully digitized system of governance. Armor will be such that the channels of connection with the command to protect the crew and the interception and jamming. Because the new armor will be such that through it will not be able to pass any external signal. The crew will be multi-layered armor and composite materials will be fully protected from all that can happen with a tank engine, its fuel tanks and supply of shells' - revealed the influential daily newspaper Izvestia moskovsakom source familiar with the implementation of the project.

Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defence autooklopnotenkovske Russia, Major-General Alexander Shevchenko, said the other day that the project "Armata" already implemented known military factory "Uralvagonzavod". Shevchenko has vowed to supertenk over three years but to be "in metal".

In "Uralvagonzavodu" the "Izvestia", however, said that things were even better: "During the 2015th new tank "Armata" will be delivered for armored units. This means that the first 'machine' appear before '.

The same list is an expert on tanks, chief editor of "Arsenal" Viktor Murahovski said that the whole Russian army was enough to have only 2,000 of these tanks.

He predicts that the T-90 tanks, T-80 and T-72, the RF Ministry of Defense is now `active` modernize - as soon as a new supertenk - used only for training reservists.

Poptredsednik Academy of geopolitical problems, doctor of military sciences Konstantin Sivkov believes that the emergence of `tank gun crew which does not need Russia` very close `the production of fully autonomous tank, which will manage the spacing, while a tank will I be able to destroy targets in automatic mode `.

"In future battles will go forward tanks-robots that will operate where it is most dangerous. Only for them to go with tanks crews, "predicts Sivkov.

He said that the Soviet Union in the last years of its existence largely worked on the production of tanks `autonomous' and ready to be on the basis of T-80` make fully automatic with a tank system identification purposes. However, the collapse of the Soviet Union prevented the bringing this project to the end.

With help from the Obama Administration...

Russia Invites U.S. To A 'Tank Biathlon'

August 10, 2013

Russia has invited the U.S. to participate in a tank biathlon so that both nations may learn to play nice — with heavy artillery.

The invitation was apparently extended while Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met with their Russian counterparts Sergei Lavrov and Sergei Shoigu in Washington on Friday. The "two-on-two" talks were intended to relieve some of the tension between the two countries, so the suggestion of a little friendly competition — under fire — wasn't out of place.

Defense Minister Shoigu repeated the invitation during a Friday press conference, and according to Russia's RIA Novosti news service, Shoigu says the U.S. agreed.

"'We've invited our American colleagues to participate ... and our invitation was accepted by US Secretary of Defense [Chuck] Hagel,' Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Saturday."

NPR can't confirm this — calls to the Department of Defense went unanswered Saturday — but if such an event does take place, Shoigu says it'll be sometime next year.

Russia might have the advantage, however; ITAR-TASS reports Russia has already hosted at least two tank biathlons. Another, the championship, is planned next week.

As to what exactly happens in a tank biathlon, think of a regular biathlon — then forget about it:

"In the tank biathlon, every tank runs almost 20 kilometres at a maximum possible speed, while firing from all weapons the targets, which are rising in different directions and distances. On the course, a tank has to pass repeatedly a ford, fences, a rut bridge, high-speed sections and overtaking passages. At all the times, the crew remains constantly in the firing position."

[vector7]

Russian armored personnel carrier "Crimean" to be silent, and probably completely robotized

22:14 11.08.2013.



In perspective, will be able to operate fully unmanned

Electronic systems of experimental vehicles now make it possible to remotely control it, and with some minor finishing projects and adequate control algorithms and programs - will be developed and robotic version

Russian military industry has tested combat vehicle on wheels with energoaparaturom hybrid and electric transmission based on the BTR-90 Rostock to be silent switch. This vehicle will in future be able to function unmanned spokesman said the company that produced it Sergei Suvorov.

"The works were carried out in the interest of the RF Ministry of Defense. APC (whose code "Crimean") with hybrid electric devices will move silently with molecular batteries and inactive internal combustion engine. For now, unfortunately, only a short distance, but distances can be increased ten times with a new generation of battery power - Suvorov said.

He pointed out that the "Crimean" practically ready for Spacer platform.

"Possibilities of the electronic system of the experimental model - he said - but now that it enables remote management, with minor finishing projects and adequate control algorithms and programs will be developed and robotic version."

Talking about other advantages of this machine, Suvorov pointed out that the experimental sample hybrid armored vehicles - and the engine with a capacity of as much as 1.5 times smaller than its prototype (BTR-90) - shows significantly better results.

"At the airport in Kubinka Podmoskovlje maketni pattern - heavy 22 tons - has developed a speed of 80 kilometers per hour in 33 seconds. Maximum speed of 97 km per hour, with a maximum driving speed of 40 km per hour 940 km, which is almost two times more than that of the prototype which has the same volume of fuel tank "- said Suvorov.

He pointed out that the new vehicle has 300 kilowatts of electricity.

"In the longer term this combat vehicle will be possible to install a weapon that works on new physical principles, such as a laser or electromagnetic principle" - said Suvorov.