Russia clearly doesn’t want to be left behind.
The THeMIS can also be weaponized 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 Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies CAST, said in a statement to Insider. ing.
“Unfortunately, Russia is lagging behind.”
To make up for the delay, CAST recently offered 1 million rubles ($23,000) to military and police personnel who obtained THeMIS almost intact and delivered it to the Ministry of Defense, in a recent blog post.By the way, the annual salary of a soldier who 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 less than $25 (about 3600 yen).The Washington Post reports。
“If information about foreign developments can be obtained, it should definitely be carried out by any means,” Pukhov said.
“The THeMIS sold to Ukraine is a basic model, but it makes sense just to study it.”
Jeffrey Edmonds, a former CIA analyst who now works as a Russia expert at the Center for Naval Analysis (CNA), told Insider that CAST should be considered a department with direct ties to the Russian government. However, the researcher’s view is generally in line with the government’s 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 under the Russian Ministry of Defense. He told Insider that the ultimate goal is to supply the Russian military with better drones, adding: “In a combat situation, capturing and studying systems and vehicles used by the enemy would be an It’s one of the main ways to do that.”
(Translated by Fumiko Nakata, edited by Toshihiko Inoue)