Russia’s Terrifying Terminator Robo-Tank, It’s Back
Moscow’s unmanned war machine integrated into combat formation for the first time during military exercises.
Russia has rolled out a robot tank in combat formation during its just-completed war games with Belarus.
The Uran-9 is an unmanned combat ground vehicle designed to carry out combat, reconnaissance and counterterrorism missions. Running on tank tracks, it can destroy targets as far as 5 kilometers (more than 3 miles) away. It’s equipped with anti-tank missiles, high-power flamethrowers and a fully automatic machine gun.
The pair of high-tech robot tanks were in action at the Zapad-2021 military exercises, which Russia carried out September 10–16 with its ally Belarus at the Mulino training center about 230 miles east of Moscow.
Russia also used the small Nerekhta unmanned battle tank in the games. The autonomous vehicle can be equipped with mounted machine guns and grenade launchers, and can also deliver ammunition and equipment under combat conditions.
Using the Uran-9s and the Nerekhta vehicles during Zapad represents the first use of robot tanks in combat formations, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation said.
The unmanned Uran-9 tank destroyed the mock enemy’s armored vehicles division and defenses during the exercise, making the most of its armaments