NRTK Impulse
Russian unmanned ground vehicle platform used alongside the Kurier UGV to carry North Korean MLRS systems.
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Why is Russia deploying two different robot platforms to carry the same North Korean rocket?
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The NRTK Impulse is a Russian electric-drive unmanned ground vehicle from the same programme as the NRTK Kurier. Both share remote aiming capability for mounted weapons. Specific technical differences between the two platforms have not been publicly disclosed.
On 7 June 2026, ISW confirmed the Impulse alongside the NRTK Kurier carrying North Korean Type-75 107mm MLRS in the Kharkiv direction. The dual deployment of two NRTK platforms signals a programme rather than a one-off experiment in autonomous rocket artillery.
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