Russian Military Photos and Videos #1

Viktor wrote:Never seen something like this before ... and very interesting !

Caption for the pic... It's a boy! (you can tell because it has a large obvious main gun..   )

Anyone who owns a battery powered helo will know the battery works for about 10 minutes and takes 6 hours or more to charge.

In a toy that can be acceptable... in a weapon of war you are carrying around dead weight that might or might not be useful.

Rather than little vehicles like that it is more useful to have small cameras you can throw or fire or fly into areas you want to know more about.

The real problem with the video above is that these vehicles will need to be covered in vulnerable cameras and sound sensors and other equipment needed to work out where the enemy is and also what else is around. A single sniper firing from a single room in a building you are not going to win hearts and minds if you fire MGs at that building without making sure you don't hit non combatants.

The idea is good, but it will be quite some time before that becomes reality...

A sniper model could be useful with a belt fed semi auto "sniper" rifle with long range optics and ballistics computer and laser range finder etc so it could be sent to high ground to scout for targets and engage them. A Metis-M1 ATGM might be useful mounted on it too just to engage targets behind cover armed with a HE warhead.