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Ukraine was throwing everything in its power in Russia, as it approached its comprehensive sign of the three -year mark. The latest weapon in the army arsenal? Done aircraft.
Other types of drones have already proven critical to Ukraine during the war, and they used it to take the battle to the enemy – along the front lines and beyond. Likewise, Russia has sent men and machines to the battle, using its drone army on Ukrainian soil.
Amid this changing fast environment, Ukraine now aims to use drones-also known as unmanned ground vehicles, or UGVs-to help the military carry out major tasks and maintain more safe soldiers.
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Ukrainian Defense Minister Rostam Orov He says The army will increase UGV for a variety of purposes, including providing soldiers and transporting the wounded, as well as other tasks. After that, after expectations from Mykhailo Fedorov, the country’s digital transformation minister, which Ukraine needs to do so Tens of thousands of these tools this year.
“Ukrainians are sure to use more and more of these, not soldiers,” said Samuel Bendit, adviser to the Russian Studies Program in CNA, a research and analysis organization in Washington.
But Russia is also competing for an UGV feature and its forces trying to a variety of new tools.
Experiment in actual time
Pendit said that UGVs continues in Ukraine, has followed the same path that the most used airplanes have taken widely: they tend towards smaller and smaller models that can be built quickly, tested on the fly and easily replacing them when destroyed.
“For this reason, the Ukrainians talk about tens of thousands of them (unleash it),” Bendit said, noting that the largest and most expanding terrestrial systems will be more difficult to defense and more expensive than loss.
He said that a high level of experiments is tolerated, partly because of the need to obtain what they need for soldiers on the front lines.
“It is a matter of life and death,” said Benedet, who is closely monitoring the drone models. Used in Ukraine.
The urgency of the soldiers to obtain their hands on these tools is the same on the Russian side.
Benedet said he saw “a lot of stories in the Russian media about the soldiers who build UGVs who built themselves.”
Time to come
“Sreatly UGVS is hardly new,” said Mick Ryan, a retired pioneer in the Australian army, which indicates the German use of devices called Galots during World War II. She was Mines that are controlled remotely That was sent towards a position to be detonated.
“We saw these things In NormandyRyan, an older military affairs colleague on the Institute’s International Security Program in Australia, said.
Peter Samsonov, author and creator of the tank archive blog, said via e -mail that during the same era, the Soviets had a “tank”, which was like Julia. He said that there are other weapons similar to what it is in the battlefield in Ukraine today.
Samsonov said: “Another Introduction to the Soviet Telletank, which was controlled by radio instead of cables and was subject to reuse.” These specific machines It was complicated to keep and work, so a few were produced.
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For the most modern examples, Ryan refers to the robots used in the tasks of disposal of bombs, during modern wars in the Middle East. But he says he was not even the current war in Ukraine, the extensive potential of UGVs was recognized – after drones showed what they could do in the air and also in the sea.
Ryan says its benefit has been shown sharply last year, as UGVs is used in a “really wide range of tasks”.
“These are not just fatal robots – this is partial, but they are at the present time.”
Bendett agrees to CNA, noting that a lot of UGVs “is not used in actual fighting, but is used in supply roles.”
But there are multiple media reports on Ukrainian attack in DecemberNear Leiptisi, Ukraine, which is involved in reports A mixture of UGVs and FPV drones.
Keep the safety of the soldiers
After three years of war at the level of the country, Ukraine remains under great pressure: The Institute residing in the United States to study the war estimates that Russia controls about 112,307 square kilometers-or more than 18 percent of Ukraine’s territory-starting on Thursday.
Ukraine is fighting against a discount with much larger than the population that could be described by recruits, and Kiev was hesitant to mobilize the smallest adults to join the war. So these Ukrainians who are already participating in the fighting are very important to the war effort.
Umerov, Minister of Defense, said that the broader use of drones aims to spare Ukrainian soldiers from particularly dangerous duties.
“Our goal is to create an army as innovative technologies help in performing the most dangerous tasks, and providing our defenders’ lives,” he said when announcing a plan to burn more unmanned systems to the battlefield.
According to Ryan, it is the people behind these machines who will determine how much they can do.
“Frankly, the group of tasks that we will see these things that you consider are only limited to the imagination of the soldiers,” he said.
