Putin’s scientists are creating spy pigeons controlled by brain implants

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Russia is pioneering remote-controlled spy pigeons fitted with brain implants that can ‘fly at will’.

A state-linked Moscow neurotechnology firm has bragged that its operators can steer flocks across the sky, likely to trigger alarm among defence experts and animal-rights groups.

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