SGR-1"

AP South Korea's military on the 13th that the South Korean army since last month, the demilitarized zone from South Korea in the Korean Peninsula side, testing the deployment of machine-gun equipped sentry robot.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency to military officials as sources, this robot sentry model "SGR-1", can be used for detectors, warning into the demilitarized zone ROK side of the people and objects and be repressive firepower.

An unnamed officer said, "Since last month, we have lots in the middle of the demilitarized zone pilot deployment of these robots," the trial period to the end of this year.

The officer told the Yonhap news, if the trial is successful, Han Jun, the military demarcation line along the north and south, the ROK side of the demilitarized zone in the deployment of such a robot sentry.

Sentry robot with infrared detectors and audio and video communication systems, to real-time control of exploratory potential threat to the officer's report to the command center. Control personnel, if not by the robot's audio and video communication systems to confirm identity of the other party, can order the robot to use machine guns, or 40 mm grenade launchers to the entrants automatically fired.

"SGR-1" by a subsidiary of South Korea's Samsung Group, a technology research and development consortium led by South Korean companies.

According to the Korean Armistice Agreement, the two Koreas to military demarcation line near the Line of Actual Control as the military demarcation line, their back two kilometers from this line, the establishment of demilitarized zone.