Translated and subtitled by Scott Humor
On June 25, Vladimir Putin signed a decree giving a green light to the creation of a new military innovative Technopolis in Anapa.
(Anapa is a resort town on the Black Sea coast. S.H.)
The object has been dubbed the “Era.” What kind of era awaits Russian military technology in the near future? A conversation on this topic might be interesting.
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On June 25, Vladimir Putin signed a decree giving a green light to the creation of a new military innovative Technopolis in Anapa.
(Anapa is a resort town on the Black Sea coast. S.H.)
The object has been dubbed the “Era.” What kind of era awaits Russian military technology in the near future? A conversation on this topic might be interesting.
In Stanisław Lem’s remarkable novel “Peace on Earth,” the main character reads a book titled “The tendency of unhumanization in 21st century weapon systems, or Evolution upside down.” It is about a phenomenon that for Lem’s character was a work of the past, and for us – has yet to come.
“Intellectronics produced microcomputers as cheap as grass, and neuroentomology finally solved the riddle of social insects who live and work together, communicating in their own language, even so bees, for example, have a nervous system 380,000 times smaller than a human brain.
The intelligence of a bee is quite sufficient for a foot soldier, as military prowess and intelligence are two different things, at least on the battlefield.
The major factor in the push for miniaturization was an atom bomb.”
We, living in the twenty first century, have not yet had a chance to observe success of intellectronica and neuroentomology . Moreover, even in the most advanced areas of science – like robotics – the military has yet to make some success in shifting the burden of warfare unto machines. Earlier, domestic media reported on problems discovered during battle testing of new Russian anti-tank robot Uranus-9 in Syria. Military experts have found flaws and deficiencies with systems of mobility, firepower, command, supervisory and intelligence functions of this combat robot. In addition, in a state of autonomous movement Uranus-9 revealed a low reliability of its running gear, guides and rollers, as well as suspension springs. The robot also showed unstable operation of its 30-mm automatic gun, untimely fire triggering circuits and failure of the thermal optical sight station. In addition, military experts believe that inability to fire in motion to be the U-9 great disadvantage. As follows from the materials, the robot is capable to conduct reconnaissance and determine targets at a distance of not more than two kilometers. In addition, there are questions concerning vision, surveillance devices and operator’s screens.
With so many problems here, no one is even talking about some kind of miniature weapons. Take drones, for example. They are not yet so tiny as to escape from air defense and to be stealth, like bees.
If you’re still listening at this point, you may be wondering what Russia’s new military innovative Technopolis Era have to do with it?
The answer: If you bring up the text of the Presidential decree to create this project, you can find the following paragraph:
“To entrust the general management of the Technopolis research projects to the president of the federal state budgetary institution the national research center “Kurchatov Institute.“
In case you forgot, Kurchatov Institute’s main specialty is physics.
It’s key objectives and sphere of research today are the development of safe nuclear power, controlled thermonuclear fusion and plasma processes, nuclear physics of low and mean field energies, solid state physics and superconductivity, and meson chemistry. Kurchatov Institute carries fundamental and applied research in other fields, like in element base of quantum informatics and microelectronics. Physics, however, is still a priority for them.
And it’s under the leadership of the head of such powerful scientific institution that the young minds will be working in the field of military technologies.
Maybe Lem was wrong, at least with regard to our country, and the Ministry of Defense sees the prospects for new weapons development not in miniature robots that can burrow down into earth to wait out a nuclear explosion?
What if it was another writer who said it right, our compatriot Mikhail Yuriev. He created a very controversial novel “The Third Empire” where he stated that Russia defeated the USA with the help of and energy field. Here’s what he wrote:
“… The mechanism of action of this Russian miracle-shield is unknown even now, more than thirty years later.
That is to say that our scientists have long understood that the general principle of its work is a generation of a field related to so-called weak field, which changes certain parameters inside the atomic nuclei and therefore makes radioactive elements completely stable (albeit, only while the generator is running).
Accordingly, plutonium or uranium while inside this field cannot undergo a radioactive decay, and, in particularly, an explosion.”
I am not a physicist, and I cannot say whether the effect described by Yuriev is possible. However, even if I were a physicist, it’s not a fact that I would be able to tell. Still, there is a certain paradigm among our scientific community, the consistency of opinions when it comes to important fundamental issues. It is often possible to discover something new only by being outside of this paradigm, without being constrained by its framework. Maybe this is the purpose of creating a military Technopolis “Era”? To get together young people who are able to look at some important issues without some kind of horse blinders on their eyes and to brainstorm some revolutionary scientific ideas.
What do you think?
We still do not know who and how created the strategic missile system Avangard reported by President Putin in his address to the Federal Assembly on March 1st. It will probably take us next 50 years to find out. Since the military-political leadership of Russia is creating a new Technopolis, it means that it holds certain hopes. Hopes that are clearly not tactical, but of far-reaching strategic nature. At this moment, the United States can no longer afford an attack on our country that would be successful, and would not end in mutually assured destruction, but it is necessary to maintain our advantage in the future.
That’s why we need projects like the Era.
Who knows what the President of our country feels signing decrees for creation of this and similar technopolises? Maybe, as a character from one of the brothers Strugatskys’ novels, who gathered together scientists on some hostile planet, so they could forge a better future for themselves and their compatriots?
“And in almost every room, office or a lab were pictures of the Time Wanderer: on desks, beside tables and charts, on the wall between windows, above the doors, sometimes lying under the glass covering a desk.
These were amateur photographs, drawings in pencil or charcoal, one portrait was even painted with oil paint.
Here you can see the Wanderer, playing with a ball, Wanderer, giving a lecture, the Wanderer, chewing an apple, a Wanderer brooding, tired, angry, and even Wanderer bursting into laugher.
These s.o.b.s even drew cartoons of him and hung them in the most prominent places!
The prosecutor demonstrated as he entered the office of the junior counselor of justice and found a caricature of himself.
It was unimaginable, impossible!”
Does Putin look like a “progressor” dispatched to us from a more developed civilization? Such a progressor who thinks that we should reach the new heights all by ourselves. The way a snail climbs mount Fuji slope. First, we got new weapons that protect us from attempts to “democratize” us, then –we will develop other sources of energy, then – a better social system. Every time I hear about creation in our country of a new point of growth like this Technopolis, I recall Putin’s words “everything is going to be fine.”
How does he know?
I know what you are going to say now: he has Yumashev, as his adviser, and Medvedev for a prime minister.
(A little known fact that Yumashev was the one who persuaded Yeltsin to step down. S.H.)
Yeah, I don’t really like it, either.
Many didn’t like Serdyukov, but the new army is here, fortifying Crimea and Kaliningrad, finishing off the bearded bustards in Syria.
It’s the vector of movement which is important.
And, if it will become unacceptable for us, we will correct it.
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Scott Humor,
the Director of Research and Development
My research of the war on Donbass is available at the saker.community book store
The War on Donbass, which is called by the Western politicians and media the “Russian aggression in Ukraine” was a staged psyop.
My illustrated investigation titled Pokémon in Ukraine reveals how this psyop was staged, by whom and why.
This is a remarkably insightful and topical commentary from Ruslan Ostashko.
Every time I hear Putin speak he talks about the “Breakthrough” that he wants his society to make. He told the politicians on Day One of his new term. He told the school graduates of the nation just the other day. He really wants this breakthrough to occur. I suspect this is the legacy he wants to retire on, to see this beginning to happen.
Just when many of us in the world were thinking that Russia was already pretty far ahead of the general curve, Putin tells his country that it has to make a leap that goes far, far beyond where it is.
And so we are all left wondering what this breakthrough will be. Putin never explains. So Ruslan has to speculate. And others will speculate also.
Maybe the details don’t matter. As we have seen from Russia constantly, what matters is to change the paradigm. The nation is hearing it must leap far beyond – this is the new paradigm. We await, in wonderment, to see how this will manifest.
Thank you Scott.
This all ties in with VVP placing Rogozin in charge of all the space and tech firms – where he can focus on these initiatives instead of being caught up in cabinet affairs. All these advancements can then flow to civilian life and improvement.
https://www.rt.com/politics/431157-russian-space-boss-religion/
When you look at how far ahead Russia was/is in the space sector vis a vis the USA – it makes complete sense that it needs to drive this forward.
This was really fast and not being a Russian speaker, I had to be quick with the stop button to be able to read the subtitles in English. And still, I need to go through this one more time because it is nuanced and speaks of things that is hard to conceptualize now and a level of strategic thinking that is hard to reach for one that is not kinda born to it. It almost seems futuristic at its best but yet, hints that this future is real are cropping up all around us.
Saker readers must really find a few bucks to buy and read Scott’s Pokémon in Ukraine – the overt and covert Wargames that Warmongers Play, to draw you, and me and those that are peaceful, into their diabolical game, which is the reason for the game itself. https://saker.community/product/pokemon-in-ukraine-tactical-war-game-introduction-manual-pdf/
It gets ‘science-fictiony’ if we realize the sheer ‘size’ and the ‘stakes’ of the ‘game’. This is not granddaddy’s poker night out!
There is a lot of speculation and sci-fi mysticism(for one, I am an avid fan, and the concepts are familiar from specific novels) in the above presentation.
Some newsworthy notes are:
-Russia has tested(semi?) autonomous drones in Syria.(that were plagued by mechanical shortcomings, yet, the software was effective.)
-Putin investing in extermely long term military/scientific project shows optimism in the tactical, yet caution in strategic sense.
What Putin spoke of many months ago was the Next Gen of Technology, like that of the Made in China 2025 initiative.
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Big Data, and changing to a Digital Economy are crucial.
The race among the three big nations, US, China and Russia, will be for the next 5-10 years at the most. By then, the winner might be possessing some decisive technological process, product or weapon system.
So, Science and Technology, civilian and military, state managed and private enterprise are now all one. The scale of the leap needed to thwart whatever might come along out of tech labs, supercomputers and the imagination of young people is impossible to project. Trillions will be spent in China and the US for certain. Russia has always operated with less funding, usually 10:1 less. But for its economy, it will be stress-inducing.
Space weaponization is now for real. The US will build a unique Space Force.
Genetics is a biological sector of science that the US and China are pursuing.
Block chain is now a fundamental infrastructure requirement for advanced security of data, be it commercial, scientific or top secret.
Russia is behind the other two in many areas, but has vast and deep experience in competition with the US from the Cold War days.
Clearly, Putin understands that his base of youth, college and high-schoolers, will be the key to breakthroughs. They are like the generation of Americans when Sputnik went up. They see the challenge as a mortal threat, existential to their country and its sovereign future.
However, what Russia has done from 2004 until present, with EW systems, S-400 and S-500 missile defenses, the proven jet fighters and jet bombers, Su-57, and Kalibr cruise missile, are indicators that Russia can invent, innovate, test and prove complex scientific and technological products.
What must happen is Russia cannot be delayed or distracted from a boom in education and innovation.
This is why Putin is making this Priority #1.
SF writers have been making large assumptions about magic “fields” for over a century – and why not? It makes for interesting stories.
But I have a hunch that there might be a little bit more to such a field than just preventing nuclear explosions. Just think for a moment what else depends on the weak force…
I’ve been away for a while and have spent these past few days catching up on these series of analyses by the likes of Ostashko and Ishchenko. Before it’s too late may I take a second to say thanks to The Saker and the translators for their efforts. Spasibo bolshoye.
One of the hallmarks of great leaders, I think, is to take time to think about, and plan for, the future. They refuse to be bogged down by the many pressing matters of the moment and look far ahead with a sense of optimism, confidence and, perhaps most important, belief in their people. VVP has just initiated something for the young, or youngish, people of Russia. It’s for them, the youth in university or even in school, to take up the mantle and to propel Russia forward. He’s passing them the baton and asking them to run with it. True, Technopolis is mainly to do with defence but won’t there be spin-offs that may benefit the general good? I’m sure there will be.
basil
Sea,
This is how it usually works. Eventually all the work for the military benefits the civilians.
I also think, that what VVP is attempting at doing is to push the progress forward. This is never easy. but …
Does anyone have an insight about the location chosen?
As per significance of water access, energy supply, transport, nearby MIC objects, safety/security considerations, etc?
The Era military innovation technopolis of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will be created in the city of Anapa, Krasnodar Territory.
Anapa is located on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. The distance from Anapa to Crimea is 260 kilometers.
Thus, the location is near to all that is crucial to Russia’s military defense.
It is within the Southern Military District, which includes Crimea, as highly defended as any area of Russia.
Transportation facilities include the Anapa Airport, a railway station, an international passenger port for small-tonnage ships, a bus station, and a network of highways.
Population is just under 60,000. A coastal port and tourist site.
Being a port city it would enable “prototype” weapons to be secretively moved to other locations for testing.
Putin: Nearly 30 Aircraft, 1,140 Troops Withdrawn from Syria Over Past Days
https://sputniknews.com/military/201806281065853193-putin-syria-troops-aircraft/
Covers Syria force reductions, training and some of the new weapon systems. Last paragraph:
“The new equipment is set to be delivered despite a 20 percent cut in Russia’s defense spending between 2016 and 2017, from about $65.4 billion to about $48 billion per year.”
There are 2 options to take over a Nation.
Before 1980, by Invading. After 1980, by Corrupting the Government of the Nation.
The USSR was dissolved by Consent, not by Conquest.
Gorbachev, Yeltsin with company were Globalists, and they were working for N.W.O.
https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2012/01/31/10-kingdoms-the-abolition-of-sovereignty/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/one-world-governance-and-the-council-on-foreign-relations-we-shall-have-world-government-by-conquest-or-consent/5541363