There will be no nonsense

The promising research fund, created on the initiative of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, determined his first project, reports Vedomosti. The Kurchatov Institute, headed by Mikhail Kovalchuk, will develop a "soldier of the future." 170 million rubles were allocated for the project.

According to the representative of the fund, they do not agree that in the future the soldier "should look like a kind of armored, armed to the teeth with a cyborg in the exoskeleton," as the military represented by the military. "We adhere to another concept, which implies the maximum possible in combat conditions output of a person outside the enemy fire destruction zone and endowing it with the functions of managing robotic devices that fighting for him," the fund said.

Experts interviewed by the publication consider it correct to transfer the project to civilian developers. However, they doubt that controlled robots can be effective on the battlefield, taking into account the development of electronic suppression tools.

FPI will receive 2.3 billion rubles from the federal budget this year. Eight projects will be financed out of this money. They are included in the Board of Trustees of the Fund in his three -year program. Documentation for the others is still being finalized.

Kovalchuk in the media was repeatedly called a friend of President Vladimir Putin. In 1996, Kovalchuk, together with Putin, was one of the co -founders of the country cooperative "Lake" near St. Petersburg.