The Russian president, Vladimir Putinassured today that this year the army will receive almost ten times more drones than in 2023, when some 140,000 unmanned devices were produced.
«In total, in 2023 the Armed Forces received about 140,000 unmanned devices. This year it is planned to multiply production, to be precise, almost ten times.Putin said during the meeting of the military industry commission, in a speech broadcast on public television.
Putin, who admitted once the military campaign began that the Armed Forces suffered from a chronic shortage of drones, stressed that Moscow will also expand the production of “unmanned systems” and “nautical drones” are also being manufactured.
After visiting one of the main drone manufacturing companies in Saint Petersburg He stressed that “the bulk of the drones will be sent to the front” to protect the lives of soldiers and weapons, but also civilians and civil infrastructure.
“We need to fully satisfy the needs of the Armed Forces,” he stressed and proposed using artificial intelligence, since technology changes “almost every week,” which will allow Russian units to have an advantage against the adversary.
In turn, he announced that by 2030, 48 drone design and production centers will be created in different regions of the country.
«The key task is to produce a wide range of unmanned aerial devices and establish serial production of these advanced equipment as soon as possible»he insisted.
Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Wednesday that hit an arsenal of missiles, ammunition and aerial bombs in the Russian region of capturesless than 200 kilometers from Moscow, something that kyiv had already done in the past with airfields and fuel depots.
In addition, Ukrainian nautical drones have forced the Russian Black Sea Fleet to withdraw part of its ships from the annexed peninsula of Crimea. EFE (I)
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