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From 2005 the American army was filled up the battalion of robots, armed machine guns. Speech does not go while about kiborgakh, about so usual on the Hollywood films kiborgakh. The model of battle robot of "Talon", developed a company "Foster-Miller", presents from itself rather a cross-country vehicle which the machine guns of M240 or M249 will be set on. In a company "Foster-Miller" also does not eliminate possibility of issue of modification with a rocket launcher. Testing of models of robots of "Talon" was conducted in the atmosphere of secrecy, since 2003, and on his results Department of defense was given by a consent to acceptance of battle robots on arming with of army the USA.
In spite of revolutionism of development, a human factor plays a basic role in a management this weapon. The operator of cross-country vehicle fully controls a robot through a computer. As newspapers report, the prototype of robot-warrior was become by robots-secret service agents of PackBot (development of company of iRobot), used for conducting of operations in the caves of Torus of the coniferous Forest in Afghanistan. "Talon" weighs about 40 kilogram and can move on a cross-country with speed to 10 km/h. The charge of batteries is enough for overcoming of distance in 30 kilometres. Lump sum of orders on a robot Talon in 2005, got a company from Department of defense of the USA and different governmental agencies, made 65 million dollars.
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