Flying tanks: Russia’s robotic Armata system to have own scout drone

The company that unveiled the Russian Armata supertank at last year’s Victory Parade in Moscow plans to turn it into a fully robotized “machine of the future.” What is more, Armata will employ a Russian-built unmanned aerial vehicle to gain a tactical edge.

Unmanned Armata is the machine of the future, we have no doubts about it. Both we and the military are sure,” Oleg Sienko, director of Uralvagonzavod, leading Russia’s tank manufacturer, told RIA Novosti news agency in an interview Monday.

Warfare is rapidly evolving away from large scale human involvement, to robotic technology. The battle space will primarily be one of robots, along with a small human contingent of specially trained operators. Small scale, regional conflict will become the province of robots. Large scale global conflict will still remain mutually self destructive, and therefore counterproductive, one hopes. To read more, click here.