Saturday, August 15, 2009

War Robots

Foster – Miller company has made 18 robotic soldiers for the Pentagon. In the March they have arrived on territory of Iraq to help the American troops.

Talon war robots were earlier used at the bombs defusing. After some improvements they became high-grade fighters. Machines of war are controlled by operators those are taking place nearby, in a shelter cope. The robotic soldier is not whimsical in service and, basically, is not too hi-tech, that makes its cost - low. It, without any doubt, will be in the world history, noone have used war robots yet.

Standard armory of the " Talon " war robot is: automatic rifle М249, rate of fire of 750 shots in minute, machine gun М240 (1000 shots in one minute), four videocams.




The Russian counter-terrorist robots:

Varan. The multipurpose mobile light robot. Is able to search for a bomb, provides access to it, defuse it.

Characteristics: speed 1 meter per second, 8 videocams, temperature endurance from-40 C with up to +50 C, works non-stop for 4 hours.




Vezdekhod-TMZ. This robot - scout records audio and video in the urban conditions and half-broken ground areas.

Characteristics: drives of management with a huge choice of speeds, the microprocessor digital channel of remote control with autosearch of a signal source , multichannel radio control.

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