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01.01.1970 //South Koreans will advance on the boundary of robot- frontier-guard.
In South Korea on Thursday it is declared about the completion of the process of creating the newest unique combat unit - robot- frontier-guard, capable of performing boundary duty along the 38th parallel, which divides Korean peninsula into those opposing to each other the north and the south. South Korean robot- frontier-guard, declared in Seoul the Ministry of trade and industry of South Korea, it was armed by machine gun with that attached to it by the set of combat or rubber bullets. Depending on situation with any "suspicious rustle" on the boundary electronic frontier-guard can conduct fire for effect, or raise alarm. Among his unquestionable merits - ability with the aid of the vmontirovannykh sensors and the video cameras to distinguish in the daytime at a distance to two kilometers the motion of man from those others moving by object, such, as, automobile, for example, and at night - at the removal one kilometer. In robot is build it the system of the recognition of "friend-foe", which recovers the produced by man correct password for ten steps. As military experts are convinced, adoption to the "service" of the subdivisions of robot- frontier-guards must considerably increase the level of observation of the guarded 250- kilometer demilitarized zone (DMZ), which plays the role of the state border between PDRK - PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF KOREA and South Korea. In the press release the Ministry of trade and industry emphasizes that the developed robots "open new era, since they can replace soldiers by the first line of defense against any aggression from the side of the Communist north". In turn, Defense Ministry and command of the armed forces of South Korea plan to create the mobile forces of the robots of another modification. On them will be entrusted not only the tasks in the patrolling DMZ, but also on the mine clearing.