"New Russian combat robot Platform-M armed with..." Topic

… assault rifle and grenade launchers.

"During the latest Russian naval defense exhibition in the city of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula,. Russian defense industry has showcased its new Platform-M combat robot which can be used both for patrolling and attacks.

According to its developer, Progress Scientific Research Technological Institute of Izhevsk, Platform-M can be used "for gathering intelligence, for discovering and eliminating stationary and mobile targets, for firepower support, for patrolling and for guarding important sites. The unit's weapons can be guided, it can carry out supportive tasks and it can destroy targets in automatic or semiautomatic control systems."

It's equipped with optical-electronic and radio reconnaissance locators, which enable the Russian robot to perform combat tasks during the night without unmasking itself. Platform-M is a universal platform that can be supplies "with a variety of defensive chassis and weaponry," the developer added…"
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Armand

Okay--nitpicking here--the "assault rifle" looks like an MG to me (belt fed, even). And the "grenade launcher" looks like 4 RPG-22 (or similar)--which, while called a grenade launcher, is more like a rocket launcher. In the west, a grenade launcher is more like the 40mm M203 (I use that as an example since I can't remember what the German version is called).

Rob

I think it's a terminology thing. Also, if the MG (I can't honestly recognize the thing because it's obscured by that great huge sensor pod, the muzzle device makes me think Dushka but the size doesn't) is manufactured by the Kalashnikov Concern and has a rifled barrel, it is *technically* a "Kalashnikov rifle" as stated!

This was supposedly unveiled recently? And in Sevastopol? Then why is there snow on the ground in the 2nd pic?

A nifty piece of gear though. Maybe a good way to do reconnaissance without getting your personnel killed, but I wonder how much it (and the man-operated control equipment) costs?

If it is remote control then how effective in a high ECM environment or with the development of wireless hacking?
If a level of AI how much?

"Rivets" level or higher?
If higher see link

Speaking of Rivets anyone make them?
I have some Wal-e models that I had planned on converting