Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation plans to create a grouping of five military unmanned vehicles that will be serviced by one operator by 2025. This is reported by Russian mass media with reference to sources in the military-industrial complex.
"the Task of forming groups in the development of military robots was set in 2020. By 2025, we must complete this task on baseline and an experimental design phase, and then move on to integrate these robotic groups in the automated system of control of troops", - stated in the Russian military-industrial complex.
the report says that the possibility to equip robots assault rifle / grenade launcher module, 120 mm mortars and other weapons.
it is Noted that the focus of future combat robots will counteract the other automatic weapons systems. Currently, coordination between robots in the group practiced on an experimental platform "Token".
In January, the defense Ministry has adopted robotic complex "Uran-9". Test robots began in may 2018. "U-9" designed for remote reconnaissance and fire support combined arms, intelligence and anti-terrorism units.
In September 2018, the EU adopted a resolution calling to ban the use of combat robots in the world. In the European Parliament said that "the power to make decisions about life and death should never be taken out of the hands of humans and given to machines." A similar demand was made by the human rights organization Amnesty International.
