Netherlands first in NATO was adopted by firing robots: what is known about them

Themis drone allows you to install different types of weapons on the tracked platform, now the Dutch uses machine guns. The NATO was the first NATO country to argue with land drones. About it writes Vice. Since September 12, the Netherlands Army has been using four hybrid caterpillars of themis production of Estonian company Milrem Robotics. Machines ride caterpillars, like a tank, and can also use different weapons. The Dutch showed photos on which themis shoots from the machine gun.

The work is equipped with a low-noise-electric hybrid diesel and withstand a pay load weighing up to 750 kg, which can be changed depending on the required task. According to Janes magazine, Lieutenant Colonel Sord Mevisen, commander of robotics and autonomous systems of the Netherlands of the Royal Army, the military use themis within the framework of operational experiment in conditions close to combat. "As far as I know, we have not seen one earlier in the West," he said.

- It's not just a test on the landfill. We are under the close attention of the Russians, and therefore the experiment is conducted in a semi -operative environment. " As Adnder, Defnder, MSI-DS Terrahawk, Protector, as well as Hero-120, equipped with six bargage ammunition with 3. 5 kg warheads. drones who called "cranes. Spanish military estimate how much such technique is a building E is useful on the battlefield.