Robust with a rifle showed at the exhibition-conference of the Association of the US Army (AUSA-2021). “Special Purifier Rifle” (Spur, Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle) is a rifle mounted on a four-side robot. About it reports The Drive.
Ghost Robotics and SWORD Joint Development is a 6.5 millimeter rifle, which was installed on a Q-UGV robotic platform. The design of the robot with four points support allows you to stabilize the shot, providing a targeted shooting on a range up to 1200 meters.
To control Spur, a tablet with Android Team Awareness Kit toolkit (ATAK) is used. The operator can see the image from the robot cameras and control the spur weapons remotely. In the future, developers plan to expand the autonomy of the device, which will allow spur to independently detect potential targets.
Edition notes that Spur is designed to protect and intelligence. The robot can overcome shallow reservoirs, and the speed of cross-country movement is 7 kilometers per hour. Since 2020, the version of Q-UGV without weapons is operated as part of the 325th Squadron of the US Air Force Safety.
Earlier in the United States passed fire tests of the EmAV-MCA combat robot. The car on the caterpillar chassis received an automatic gun XM813 bushmaster. According to Defence Blog, the robot gun successfully struck the steel plate with a new podkaliban ammunition.