The article states that when the Russians took positions along the forest strip, the robot got to work: it turned the dry grass surrounding them into a burning cauldron.
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According to the chief engineer of Ukraine’s 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade, call sign Magas, a squad of machine gunners followed him, aiming to destroy the surviving Russian soldiers.
According to the latest data, Ukraine has set a goal to produce at least 50,000 such combat robots this year, intended for battlefield use, to strengthen its forces resisting the Russian army.
“It is already impossible to imagine defense without drones, and the same can be said about unmanned ground vehicles. Logistics missions on the front line, evacuation of the wounded, combat tasks – the use of unmanned ground robots is currently expanding the fastest,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier.
The robot was transported by drone
In July, Ukrainian soldiers used an unmanned sea drone to remotely transport a combat robot 11 km to the shore of the Kinburn Spit in southern Ukraine.
“The land robot ‘Wolly 7.62’ was equipped with a machine gun and ammunition, from which it fired at Russian army positions, forcing them to retreat from part of the coast, after which the robot self-destructed,” writes Bloomberg.
The soldier who proposed using the $8,000 robot said that this assault operation was carried out by four Ukrainian unmanned system operators.
Ukrainian officials claim that unmanned systems help compensate for the army’s manpower gap compared to Russia. Additionally, they relieve soldiers from tasks such as dangerous logistical transports to supply troops on the front line and evacuate the wounded, thus saving lives.
According to the article, for a country facing resistance to mobilization, unmanned technologies are a particularly significant factor in trying to supplement the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces, which number 900,000 soldiers.
The commander of unmanned forces, Robert Brovdis, noted that infantry units also use unmanned vehicles to carry out combat tasks. Some robots are used to deliver mines or conduct attacks.
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“The zone extending at least 25 kilometers from the line of contact is essentially a ‘kill zone,’ where the risk of losses is particularly high due to the draconian number of drones. Thus, replacing the human factor with drones significantly reduces losses,” he explained.
Ukraine, as Bloomberg writes, with a population about a quarter of Russia’s and a much smaller economy, had no choice but to try to outpace its enemy in innovation.
Russia has also improved its drone technology by modifying Iranian Shahed drones to increase their speed and accuracy. Moscow’s forces were the first to use attack drones controlled by fiber optic cable rather than radio signals on the battlefield, aiming to avoid radio interference.
“If in the first years of the war tank units and large-scale army movements dominated, now the situation on the front line in eastern and southern Ukraine is essentially a stalemate, monitored by drones that attack any moving target,” the article’s authors state.
The geopolitical aspect is also important: the US and Europe seek to adapt their armed forces to new realities of war.
The article notes that although Ukraine’s path to NATO membership remains blocked, Alliance countries can be said to be lining up to adopt its tactical innovations related to the use of drones and robots on the battlefield.
Given that Ukraine is concluding partnership agreements in the defense industry with many European countries, Kyiv sees an opportunity to occupy a central place in the continent’s security structure even without being a NATO member.
Former US Army Vice Chief of Staff Jack Keane, in an interview with Sky News Australia on July 23, assessed Ukraine’s battlefield innovations, noting that Ukrainians have achieved something previously unattainable in the military field: “They pushed the Russians out of a position defended by people, and did so without human participation in the battle.”
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