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Russian army engineer troops will receive several mine clearing systems including the Uran-6 TASS 12501163.
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Russia’s engineer troops will receive several dozens of mine clearing, fire extinguishing and other robotic systems in 2016 including the Uran-6 unmanned multifunctional demining system, Deputy Chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Engineer Troops Colonel Ruslan Alakhverdiyev said on Monday, January 25, 2016.
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"This year, we are purchasing several dozens of robotic systems under the state defense procurement program," Alakhverdiyev said in an interview with Russian News Service radio station.
It was reported earlier that the Russian Armed Forces had started to receive robotic systems of the Uran family, including Uran-6 mine clearing robots designed to breach minefields and demine areas. The Uran-6 mine clearing robotic system prevents the direct contract between combat engineers and explosive devices during mine detecting and clearing operations. The Uran-6 is a multipurpose system which is powerful enough to replace 20 sappers and which can be remotely operated from a safe distance of about one kilometer. This robot system is capable of distinguishing an air bomb from an artillery shell or an anti-tank mine, something that the Rossiyskaya Gazeta said sappers have never seen before. The new system is currently used by a 300-stong sapper brigade of the Southern Military District dealing with the demining of some areas in the Russian Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia. The Uran-6 mine clearing robotic system with its flail sweep has a weight of 6.8 tons and a length of 4.45 meters. Its continuous mine-sweeping lane has a weight of 1.6 meters.It can work at a maximum speed of 5 km/h. The Uran-6 robotic system can destroy explosive devices with a maximum weight of 4 kilograms. |
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