Posted on 11/30/2025 3:30:17 AM PST by DFG
Russia is pioneering remote controlled spy pigeons fitted with brain implants.
A state-linked Moscow neurotechnology firm boasts its operators can steer flocks of the flying pests across the sky at will.
Researchers have launched field tests of so-called 'bird-biodrones' known as PJN-1, ordinary pigeons surgically implanted with neural chips that allow technicians to direct their flight routes.
The birds can be steered remotely in real time, with operators able to upload flight commands by stimulating targeted regions of the brain.
The pigeon then 'believes it wants to fly' in the instructed direction, claim sources at Neiry, which has deep ties to the Kremlin's hi-tech innovation machine.
Surgery is carried out in which electrodes are inserted into the brain with millimetre precision.
The birds wear tiny solar-powered backpacks containing onboard electronics, GPS tracking, and the receiver that transmits signals into the neural implant.
Chillingly, Neiry insists that 'no training is required', declaring that any animal becomes 'remotely controllable after the operation' - with pigeons capable of covering 310 miles a day, or more than 1,850 miles in a week.
'Right now, the solution works on pigeons, but any bird can be used as the carrier,' said Alexander Panov, company founder.
'For transporting heavier payloads we plan to use ravens, for coastal monitoring — seagulls, and for large marine territories — albatrosses.'
While the company claims it is 'striving for a 100 per cent survival rate,' it has not revealed how many birds have died during or after the invasive procedure.
The flock-steering technology — which the company says can be used for 'monitoring and guarding sensitive facilities' — may be transferred into military or intelligence applications.
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I’ll call BS on the capability and technology simply because it’s coming from Russia. They speak a good game but their war in Ukraine shows the crap they have technology wise. They have a log of crap, but that’s what most of it is.
I think that UK. Mail has borrowed some writers from the Bee. What happens when a hungry hawk comes into play? Or some hunter out for squab? Or when one gets horny? I remember when our fighter pilots were in awe about the Russian hype over their Mig 25 fighter jet. Then one was obtained by a Russian deflector. It was described as a flying garbage can. While it’s top speed was impressive, it could not be sustained for any necessary time or the plane would start to fall apart due to inferior metals and welds.
Now that’s funny!
Yeah, but do they have lasers on their heads?
Anything that starts with “Putin” is nothing more than a Propoganda hit piece. Not even bothering to read it.
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The author is obviously not a science writer.
Millimetre precision is not nearly good enough for this kind of technology.
When the brain in question is less than 2 centimetres across a millimetre is huge.
I would guess that the tolerances necessary are less than a micrometre.
Next step up, flying monkeys—then humans.
(The birds can be steered remotely in real time,
with operators able to upload flight commands
by stimulating targeted regions of the brain.)
How might that work 🤔🤔🤔 on,
say, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Does it require that the subject
actually has a functioning brain 🧠?
Hypothetically speaking...
Unidentifed flapping objects?
It sounds possible to me. I am not saying the Russians can do it at the present, but it may be possible.
The bionic pigeon. Self fueling, potentially cheaper than a human drone.
So then, why is Russia winning against all the high tech the US/NATO can throw at them , koolaid drinker ?
I dunno, somehow “Day of the Pigeon” doesn’t have the same ring.
‘Birds aren’t real!’
🤣🤣
Putin needs an implant, he’s nuts and working for the devil.
“Yeah, but do they have lasers on their heads?”
Not just lasers, fricking lasers!
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