{"id":1832283,"date":"2023-02-02T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1832283"},"modified":"2023-02-02T07:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:06:05","slug":"russia-to-fast-track-testing-of-tank-killing-robot-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-to-fast-track-testing-of-tank-killing-robot-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to Fast-track Testing of Tank-killing Robot in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-to-fast-track-testing-of-tank-killing-robot-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1832283&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Marker-UGV.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">After months of waiting, the Ukrainian military will receive more than 100 western-made weapons. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/ukraine-us-british-german-tanks\/\" rel=\"noopener\">main battle tanks<\/a> from its international allies, including\u00a0 31 U.S. M1 Abrams tanks, 14 British Challenger 2 tanks, and about 80 German-built Leopard 2 tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Although the arrival in Ukraine of western armor may be cause for celebration, Russia has stated that it is planning to deploy possible countermeasures. This includes an unmanned ground vehicule (UGV) which could be modified to become a robot tank killer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talk to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20230126\/robot-1847486160.html\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a> last week, Dmitriy Rogozin \u2014 the fOrmer Russian space chief who currently serves as the head of a group of military advisors calling itself the \u201cRoyal Wolves\u201d or \u201cTsar\u2019s Wolves\u201d \u2014\u00a0 announced that those western-built tanks can expect to\u00a0 meet a modified version of the Russian military\u2019s Marker UGV armed with anti-tank missile on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone agrees that our strike Marker should be prepared for their destruction along with the crews in the remaining time before the arrival of the Abrams and Leopards in Ukraine,\u201d Rogozin said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sign up to Task &#038; purpose Today<\/strong><\/a><strong>. Receive the most recent military news, entertainment, gear, and other information in your email every day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Marker is a UGV, either wheeled or tracked, developed by Android Technologies and the Advanced Research Foundation, essentially Russia\u2019s equivalent of the United States\u2019 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, there are only five Markers. Rogozin claims that four of them have been sent to the Donbass region in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s interesting is that Marker was always presented as a proof of concept, a flagship project for \u2018general AI artificial intelligence] applications,\u201d Samuel Bendett is a member the Russia Studies Program as well as an adjunct senior fellow at The Center for New American Security. \u201cSo deploying it raises more questions than answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Marker, like many Russian-made UGVs was previously tested in a reconnaissance role and intelligence gathering function. It can travel remotely and launch small unmanned air vehicles as reconnaissance platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Bendett said that while these tests were done in forests, they are not as chaotic as the environment the vehicle would encounter in a real combat situation in Donbas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may have gone through classified testing that we are not privy to,\u201d said Bendett. \u201cBut Donbas is not a controlled environment. It\u2019s saturated with weapons and countermeasures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia has a long tradition of testing new technology on the battlefield. Indeed, the Russian military previously fielded the Uran-9 UGV in Syria beginning in 2018, but the weapon-laden vehicle was fraught with so many problems \u2014 a range of just 300 to 500 meters, frequent breakdowns, and loss of control from the human operator \u2014 that even Russian defense officials acknowledged it was \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/russia-uran-9-robot-tank-problems\/\" rel=\"noopener\">not capable of performing the tasks assigned to it<\/a>.\u201d (Still, the Uran-9\u00a0 was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/russia-army-adopting-uran-9-robot-tank\/\" rel=\"noopener\">adopted<\/a> Russian military and Russian state media <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/1331147\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Last year, it was deployed to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of what may be happening here is that there have been a lot of Russian projects similar to Marker in development for some time,\u201d said Bendett. \u201cRussia needs to field this new technology to show that it can do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bendett, who has only four Marker vehicles in his fleet, said that the public promotion of these UGVs being potential tank killers is probably a PR stunt and that they are unlikely ever to see use outside of a very controlled environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In theory, the Marker can do a lot. As a test-bed vehicle, Bendett likened it to Legos \u2014 fitting on whatever can conceivably be mounted. That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it will work in the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The announcement that they are capable of destroying a tank raises questions about UGVs being used on the battlefield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole point of fielding a UGV is to take humans out of a dangerous environment. But in all the discussions that have taken place throughout Russian military academia, no one ever talked about what happens when the vehicle is destroyed,\u201d said Bendett. \u201cAnd if soldiers have to recover the UGV, that negates the whole purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia may find this a problem. In Syria, for example, the Uran-9\u2019s terrible range didn\u2019t do much for the whole keeping \u201chumans out of a dangerous environment\u201d Robot warfare is an important element. And with only four systems in existence, the Marker isn\u2019t exactly \u201cexpendable,\u201d as Bendett said. The western-built tanks were not delivered to Ukraine. However, the Abrams tank has a better chance of survivability in battle than a UGV. The war in Ukraine will be a test ground for UGVs in combat, despite this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real question is to what extent Russia and Ukraine will continue to experiment with these systems,\u201d said Bendett.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-the-latest-on-task-purpose\"><em>Get the latest news on Task &#038; Purpose<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Do you want to write for Task &#038; Purpose<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/task-purpose-writing-pitching\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> <\/strong><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of waiting, the Ukrainian military will receive more than 100 western-made weapons. main battle tanks from its international allies, including\u00a0 31 U.S. M1 Abrams tanks, 14 British Challenger 2 tanks, and about 80 German-built Leopard 2 tanks. Although the arrival in Ukraine of western armor may be cause for celebration, Russia has stated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1832286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4971,14887,4280,17349,6287,6991],"class_list":["post-1832283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-fast-track","tag-robot","tag-russia","tag-tank-killing","tag-testing","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}