Russia, having brought the Platform-M robotic complexes to the battlefield for the first time, demonstrated its technological power. Thus, the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet assessed the use of drones during the Zapad-2021 exercises.
The publication notes that the main feature of the remotely controlled robotic attack complexes "Platform-M" on a tracked chassis, armed with four grenade launchers and a Kalashnikov machine gun, is the use of artificial intelligence, which allows the drone to independently determine targets and move.
The publication claims that this Russian robot can autonomously identify targets on the field and open fire on the enemy without getting permission from the command post. "Moscow has demonstrated that it has begun serious preparations for unmanned wars of the future," the publication says.
The publication also noted the Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) "Outpost". The publication says that UAVs capable of performing aerial reconnaissance for a long time are particularly attracting the attention of Russia after the latest conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced the use of Platform-M robots and Orlan and Outpost drones at the Zapad-2021 exercises on September 11.
In March 2018, American analyst Samuel Bendett from CNA, in a column published by War is Boring, listed the available Russian military ground combat robots, noting that " there are still few concrete hints about the time when such machines will begin active service." The expert's list included such large systems as the Uran-9 robot tank, the Soratnik combat robot, three variants of the Nerekhta robotic complex, the Platform-M universal self-propelled tracked remote-controlled complex and the Vortex robot based on the BMP-3.
Ivan Potapov