Kalashnikov – famous for making the AK-47 – reveals machine monster which looks straight out of Avatar or Robocop as a ‘demonstration of what is to come’ at Moscow’s Army 2018 Fair

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RUSSIA’S KALASHNIKOV COMPANY UNVEILS GIANT 4.5-TONNE WALKING ROBOT OPERATED BY PILOTS INSIDE

Russia has unveiled a terrifying 4.5-tonne bulletproof robot that can walk and hold weapons in its giant claws – and looks straight out of sci-fi films like Avatar and Robocop.

The Avatar-style ‘bot was revealed by Kalashnikov at the Army 2018 Fair just outside Moscow, as a ‘demonstration of what is to come.’

The terrifying 4.5 tonne robot can walk and hold weapons in its giant claws 

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The Kalashnikov corporation is Russia’s largest rifle and assault weapons manufacturer. These days it produces some 95 percent of all small arms in the country and supplies more than 27 countries across the globe.

It found fame with the production of the AK-47 assault weapon – named after its inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov and colloquially known as the ‘Kalashnikov’

A 2004 report found that of the 500 million estimated firearms in the world, some 100 million were made by the Kalashnikov operation – and 75 percent of which as AK-47s.