Ukraine has thrown everything it can in Russia because its comprehensive invasion of the three -year brand is approaching. The latest weapon in the arsenal of the military? Bodendrohnen.
Other types of drones have already proven to be critical of Ukraine during the war, and it used it to bring the fight against the enemy – on the front and beyond. Russia also sent men and machines to fray and led his own drone army on Ukrainian soil.
In this rapidly changing environment, Ukraine is now aiming to use soil roar-even as unmanned soil vehicles or UGVs-to do its military tasks and to protect more soldiers.
Officials from the Ukrainian city of Kherson say that civilians are terrorized by Russian drones and dozens of people were killed. Pro-Russian social media accounts claim the military destinations on Ukrainian soldiers who try to mix into the locals.
The Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov says the military will “scale” its UGV use for a variety of purposes, including the delivery of soldiers and the transport of the wounded and other tasks. This was followed by a forecast by Mykhailo Fedorov, the minister of digital transformation of the country, which Ukraine has to record tens of thousands of these tools this year.
“The Ukrainians are certainly interested in using more and more of these than soldiers,” said Samuel Bendett, consultant at the Russia Studies Program at CNA, a research and analysis organization in Washington.
Russia also competes for a UGV-controlled advantage and its forces try out a variety of new tools.
Experiment in real time
Bendett said that the UGVs in Ukraine kept the same way that the most frequently used air drones have taken: they tend to be cheaper, smaller models that can quickly be built, tested in flies and can be easily replaced when destroying.
“That is why the Ukrainians talk about tens of thousands of them (unleashed),” said Bendett, pointing out that larger, more expansive soil systems generally become more difficult to defend and lose more expensive.
A high degree of experiments is tolerated, he said, partly from the need to get soldiers on what they need on the front.
“It is a question of life and death,” said Bendett, who is observed in more detail in Ukraine.
The urgency for soldiers to get these tools into their hands is the same on the Russian side.
Bendett said he had “seen many stories in the Russian media about soldiers who built UGVs who built them themselves”.
A long time comes
“Ugvs are hardly new,” said Mick Ryan, a major general of the Australian army in retirement, which indicates the German use of devices called Goliaths during the Second World War. They were remote -controlled mines that were sent to a position to detonate them.
“We saw these things in Normandy,” said Ryan, Senior Fellow for military matters at the international security program of the Lowy Institute in Australia.
Peter Samsonov, an author and creator of the Tankkarchive blog, said by e -mail that the Soviets had a “tank” in the same age that was like the Goliaths. And there were other weapons that resemble it on the Battlefield of Ukraine today, he said.
“Another forerunner mentioned is the Soviet telet tank, which was controlled by radio rather than cables and was reusable,” said Samsonov and found that these special machines were complex to wait and work so that only a few were made .
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For recent examples, Ryan refers to robots that are used for bombing tasks during modern wars in the Middle East. But he says that the broad potential for UGVs was only recognized in the current war in Ukraine – after drones were shown what they could do in the air and also at sea.
Ryan says that her supply company was heavily demonstrated last year, with UGVS being used in “a really, very large number of missions”.
“These are not just killer robots – it is partly that, but they are at the moment at the moment.”
CNAS Bendett agrees and finds that many UGVs “do not use in the actual struggle, but are used in supply rolls”.
However, there are several media reports about a Ukrainian offensive in December near Lyptsi, Ukraine, which reported a combination of UGVS and FPV drones.
Keep soldiers secure
After three years of national war, Ukraine remains under significant pressure: The institute for the investigation of war estimates based in the USA remains that Russia from Thursday from Thursday around 112,307 square kilometers or more than 18 percent of the Ukrainian territory.
The Ukraine is fighting an opponent with a much larger population from which it can design recruits, and Kyiv hesitated to mobilize its youngest adults for war. Therefore, these Ukrainians, who are already in the fight, are considered very important for the war efforts.
Umerov, the Minister of Defense, said that the broader use of soil roar should save Ukrainian soldiers from particularly dangerous duties.
“Our goal is to create a military in which innovative technologies carry out the most dangerous tasks and save the life of our defenders,” he said when he announced the plan to roll more unmanned systems onto the battlefield.
According to Ryan, it is the people behind these machines that determine how much they can.
“To be honest, the selection of missions we will see is only limited by the imagination of soldiers,” he said.
