A prototype unmanned armored car based on the BMP-3 was released by the All-Russian Research Institute (VNII) “Signal”. You control the combat vehicle from the tablet.
We have been dealing with this topic for more than 10 years. An enormous cycle of all kinds of tests carried out. Therefore, everyone involved in this process feels confident, even with an unmanned vehicle,” says Sergey Kurdubanov, the institution’s chief designer.
A special system allows you to drive armored vehicles as if the driver were inside the vehicle. One of the advantages of the operating system is that absolutely any vehicle can be equipped with it, be it an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored car or a tank.
At the same time, the cost of the system is relatively low. As for the specific BMP-3, the remote control costs 10% of the cost of the armored vehicle itself.
We could turn any vehicle into a similar drone, whether it has a wheel or a track. It takes up to 10 days to turn a car into a drone,” Kurdubanov said in an interview with Zvezda.