Can Russia's 'giant' supercomputer predict war?

Russia possesses a "giant" supercomputer capable of predicting wars, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu revealed.

A nuclear bomb test during the 1950s.

"Powerful supercomputers are located at the military's command center, helping the Russian armed forces prepare for threats," RT quoted Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu as saying.

This supercomputer is a crucial component of Russia's information technology infrastructure, so powerful that the military is only using half of its capacity, Shoigu said on Rossiya 24.

This television channel is currently producing a documentary about the Russian National Defense Coordination Center (NDMC).

Shoigu emphasized that the supercomputer is an open architecture, allowing Russian experts to add components and expand its operational capacity if needed.

This supercomputer will rely on analyses from all past wars and conflicts to predict what will happen in the future, Shoigu explained.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.

“For example, the Yugoslav Wars. This was a major NATO operation. All signs of naval mobilization, missile deployment, and strategic positioning were analyzed by supercomputers,” Shoigu said. “If the supercomputer publishes results about the current situation, or an event that is 90% similar to the past, then we know that war is imminent and we can take appropriate countermeasures.”

This "giant" supercomputer has 236 petabytes of memory, equivalent to 236,000,000 gigabytes, according to Rossiya 24. Shoigu claims this memory is 19 times larger than the US military's computer system.

The supercomputer can analyze a massive amount of data equivalent to "50 Russian National Libraries." This is Russia's largest library, currently housing 17 million books.

This supercomputer is just one part of Russia's secret digital defense center. This center operates continuously to analyze intelligence data.

In September 2016, Russia announced it was developing a supercomputer capable of controlling an entire army of armed robots at sea, in the air, or on land.

According to VNN