MOSCOW, December 21. /TASS/. The civil defense industrial complex has provided the Russian armed forces with more than 65 types of units, including 31 types of drones and four types of drone boats, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said.
The last meeting of the Technical Council of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the All-Russian Popular Front took place with the participation of Belousov. The top defense official praised the new mechanisms for accelerating the introduction of advanced weapons and equipment developed by the civil defense-industrial complex in the interests of the Russian military.
“The civil defense industrial complex has provided the Russian Armed Forces with more than 65 types of units: 31 types of drones, including three reconnaissance drones, eight ground robotic systems, two types of electronic intelligence systems, 20 electronic warfare systems, four types of drone boats. All this equipment has been on the way since April troops delivered,” Belousov said.
Belousov also added that drones are mainly used to carry out reconnaissance, attack and transport tasks during the special military operation.
“During the special military operation, drones will be used from air, land and sea bases widely used to perform reconnaissance, attack and transport tasks. They are used as a means of combat and network information exchange,” he said at the latest meeting of the Technical Council of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the All-Russian Popular Front.
He noted that the role of such resources in modern combat operations is so great that it has been decided to create a separate force within the armed forces: the unmanned system troops.