New Russian high-tech robotic tanks; Putin at Victory Parade denounces US self-image of “exceptionalism”

Uran-9 Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle © Телеканал Звезда / YouTube

Unlike Stalin, a non-Slav with strong neanderthalic features (proto-semitic, though there is no real proof he had Jewish ancestors) as well as a Bolshevik and a psychopath who wasted millions of white, Slavic, Russian lives in human-wave assaults against professional German Wehrmacht troops…

Vladimir Putin is going the opposite direction — into a dramatic use of high technology with robots that saves Russian, Slavic and white lives.

https://www.rt.com/news/426002-russia-uran9-robotic-vehicle/

A test-run of Russia’s cutting-edge Uran-9 Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle has been caught on video. The machine, which has been deployed in Syria, will be among the newcomers in the upcoming V-Day parade in Moscow.

*** Scenes from the 2018 parade

…..Edited excerpts from official US website RFERL:

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-marks-end-of-world-war-ii-with-military-parade-on-red-square/29216745.html

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued veiled criticism of the United States in a speech before a Red Square parade marking the anniversary of Germany’s defeat in World War II, listing “pretentions to exceptionalism” as a factor that drove Nazi aggression and saying such attitudes remain a threat to global security today.

Putin spoke on Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, addressing an annual Victory Day military parade two days after he was sworn in for a fourth presidential term.

Thousands of troops marched, and heavy weapons such as Iskander missile launchers rolled across the cobblestone square in a show of might at the start of a six-year term that comes amid severe tension with the West over Moscow’s military action in Ukraine and Syria, among other issues. Warplanes screamed overhead.

“War is always a challenge to life itself, to all the best in it. We remember the tragedies of two world wars, the lessons of history — they do not let us shut our eyes,” Putin said.

“Behind new threats stand the same ugly, old traits: egoism and intolerance, aggressive nationalism and pretentions to exceptionalism.”

As ties between Washington and Moscow soured badly early in Putin’s previous presidential term, Russian authorities criticized U.S. officials including President Barack Obama for speaking of American “exceptionalism,” echoing a long-standing Russian accusation that the United States is set on dominating the world.

Warning that “peace is very fragile,” Putin said that “Russia is open to dialogue on all questions of the provision of global security and is ready for constructive, equal partnership in the name of concord, calm, and progress on the planet.”

Western governments say they would welcome such cooperation but that Russia has acted aggressively on the world stage in recent years.

Putin also hit out at what he asserted were attempts to “rewrite and distort history” and deny “the feat of the people who saved Europe and the world from slavery, extermination, and the horrors of the Holocaust.” He added: “We will always be proud that the Soviet people did not blink or bend before the cruel enemy, when some states preferred the shame of capitulation.”

Some 27 million [exaggeration: about 12 million] Soviet soldiers and civilians were killed in World War II, and the Nazi surrender in May 1945 is seen by many Russians as a high point in a troubled 20th-century history.

Russian officials sometimes accuse the United States and other Western countries of playing down the Soviet Union’s massive contribution to the Allied victory, and Putin has often focused heavily on the Soviet role in his May 9 speeches.

Foreign leaders present for the parade this year included Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose visit to Moscow comes after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu, like Trump, is a fierce critic of the deal, while Russia supports it.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said before the parade that some 13,000 people, 159 pieces of military hardware, and 75 aircraft would take part.

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.https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=hiwBXXUPWE0

The remote-controlled Uran-9 is seen maneuvering through mud and firing off salvos in the latest video released by Russian Zvezda TV, an official outlet of the defense ministry. The war machine has already been seen at rehearsals for the 2018 V-Day parade, which will take place on May 9 on Red Square.

The sophisticated 12-tonne vehicle is capable of destroying enemy tanks and light fortifications. It is armed with a 30mm 2A72 automatic gun and a 7.62mm PKTM machine gun. It is also equipped with Ataka anti-tank missiles. One of the Uran-9 vehicles featured in the video is fitted with six Shmel-M rocket-propelled anti-personnel flame throwers. To hide its position, the Uran-9 is equipped with a special system which helps it cheat enemy radar.

On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry released a video of a test run of the BMPT Terminator tank-support vehicle, another weapon system that will be on display in the Victory Day parade.

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=48&v=p1dLL_HfkfU

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