Russia clearly does not want to be left behind.
The THeMIS can also be armed and used in combat.
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“The conflict in Ukraine proves that modern warfare is impossible without the proliferation of unmanned vehicles,” Ruslan Pukhov, director of the CAST Strategy and Technology Analysis Center, said in a statement to Insider.ing.
“Unfortunately, Russia is lagging behind.”
To catch up, CAST recently offered 1 million rubles ($23,000) to military and police officers who got THeMIS almost intact and delivered it to the Ministry of Defense, in a recent blog post. , the annual salary of a soldier who has signed a three-year contract with the Russian army is just over $13,000 (about 1.9 million yen), and the monthly salary of a conscript is lower at $25 (about 3,600 yen).The Washington Post reports。
“If information about developments abroad can be obtained, it should definitely be done by all means,” Pukhov said.
“The THeMIS sold to Ukraine is a basic model, but it makes sense to study it.”
Jeffrey Edmonds, a former CIA analyst who now works as a Russian expert at the Center for Naval Analysis (CNA), told Insider that CAST should be considered a department with direct ties to the Russian government. with government policy.
“That said, the head of CAST has very strong ties to the military.”
In 2007, Pukhov was appointed a member of the Public Council of the Russian Defense Ministry. He told Insider that the ultimate goal was to provide the Russian military with better drones, adding, “In a combat situation, capturing and studying the systems and vehicles used by the enemy would be a critical way to do that. .”
(Traduit par Fumiko Nakata, édité par Toshihiko Inoue)
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