In Russia, there are projects for the global development of the bottom of the world ocean with the help of robots, says TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin.
The author writes that the Central Design Bureau (KB) of Marine Equipment "Rubin" and the Foundation for Advanced Research (FPI) are working on the autonomous energy complex. The observer recalls that this product is a capsule, in one compartment of which there is a reactor with a capacity of 24 megawatts, and in the other — a turbo-generator unit.
"In fact, this is an underwater gas station for uninhabited underwater vehicles that are engaged in mining on the bottom of the seas and oceans. The system is able to work on the ocean floor for about 30 years. At the same time, the time of its continuous activity without human maintenance will be at least 8 thousand hours," the publication says.
In August, Zvezda admitted that elements of the Russian nuclear torpedo Poseidon could be tested on the deep-sea descent vehicle Klavesin-1R.
Ivan Potapov