NOVOSIBIRSK, August 28. /TASS/. The Kuryer (Courier), Russia’s most widely deployed combat robot in the special military operation zone, is capable of firing weapons, laying and clearing mines, and evacuating the wounded - the platform, which an operator can control with a standard smartphone, was unveiled at the Technoprom forum, a TASS correspondent reports.
The ground robotic system was developed at the Kaps manufacturing company in collaboration with specialists from the Omsk Armored Engineering Institute (OABII). The Kuryer has a range of more than 10 km and is controlled via fiber-optic cable, cellular communication, or a radio channel. The robot is equipped with AGS-17 grenade launchers and 12.7-mm PKT and NSVT machine guns. It is capable of covertly laying mines on a road, carrying out diversionary maneuvers, and firing to destroy targets.
"The robot lays mines on a road in the evening while no one can see it, and by the morning, the enemy will already be driving along it. In addition to this turret, we can mount completely different add-on modules here. It could be a smoke-generating system, or it could be a laser device for mine clearance," Vyacheslav Kalabin, a cadet at the OABII, a corporal, and a member of the All-Russian Society of Inventors and Innovators (VOIR), told TASS.
