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In the old warehouse, the Soviet Age itself just a mile from the front of the donkeeper, sparks flying from welding torches as Ukrainian engineers through the metal frame of the earthly robot. Known as flawless land, or angle, the machine is equipped for the front mission.
The Ukrainian soldier who goes from Oleksandr, the commander of the water of underground robbery complexes with Antares Battala Rubizh Brigade, watched his team worked. “We want to recognize a brigade and people understand this workplace – to work everywhere,” he told me.
With a small help from above, Oleksandr built a lot of its units through personal connections outside the army and looking for support volunteers. Fundraciri for the collection and donations and donations of civilian networks retained their workshop to run. His line now has only a handful of terrain robots. Other machines His team built went to other brigades or specialized units.
These machines are developed in relation to the background of the war now in the fourth year. Ukraine is locked in grinding the conflict of atric with Russia. Petroleum and gas revenues, Moscow can offer huge salaries to lure men ahead. Kiev cannot suit that approach and more and more turns technology to keep his fight.
Working at the olekasandra store is constant and often improvised. The new UGVs coming from the manufacturer usually come with default analog communication systems that are vulnerable to Russian jams. “Terms on the field dictate their rules and we need to turn all drones into digital control,” Oleksandr explained.
His team shows the machines below, welds the new prefabricated frames, prevail and installs Starlink, LTE cellular networks or encrypted digital connections before testing and deployment.
Upgrades make robots far more resilient, but also more expensive. Converting one UGV can cost equivalent 750 to $ 1,000 – without counting hardware and subscriptions to starlink. And maintenance is constant. “These are mechanical systems and support heavy loads,” Oleksandr said. “After each mission, they need servicing.”
Once upgrading, machines are tailored to the most important needs of the battlefield. Some are equipped with a remote drop systems to deliver food, ammunition or means of medical use in trenches without detecting soldiers. Other wear masts for communication relays or electronic modules of warfare and conduct and evacuations of injured soldiers. Oleksandr said that angle can also be equipped with turetus or mortars.
The speed of the question. “It’s even 15 kilometers per hour, it’s a lot,” Oleksandr said. “On a rough field, you won’t go fast without rolling or hitting or hitting. Eight to ten is still fine.”
But their primary role remains logistics and evacuation. The units avoid them during the day when they are easily noticed and destroyed Russian view of the first person, or FPV, Drones. Connecting is another constant concern; If the robot loses the signal while wearing a wounded soldier, machines and patients in the outdoors can be passed.
“Drone drives up to trench or excavation, releases load and leaves,” Oleksandr explained. “No one is exposed – not soldiers in the trench, not an angle operator.”
Ukrainian soldiers turn underground robots to survive killzone
Ukraine The use of unmanned systems has turned war on land, at sea and air. Ukraine “Drone wall“, The slogier defense of Dron, congested on the arms of Russian meat grinders, including the costs of motorcycles directed. According to military technologies, drones now make up to 80% of Russian battlefield victims.
Ukraine, which spreads Killzone, pushed more than 15 km last since Zerolina drone proliferation, encourages an increase in the front of UGV. The most dangerous task is now simply moving off and out of position on the line, where Ukraine suffers many of its victims.
Losses during logistics and evacuation strips were so hard that units that are short Truck trucks. Unamamed Fiber-Optic Drones has increasingly hunted everything that is approaching front. Like Colonel Kostintin Humeniuk, the main surgeon of the medical forces of Ukraine, told me, “almost all the injuries we now see are drone associated.”
Earth robots take more logistics cargo, delivering supplies to forward position and reduce the need for soldiers to redirect or for drone units, such as “Baba Iaga” in the trenches.
By December 2024. years, Ukraine He performed his first document attack on all robots to Russian positions. In July 2025. year, 3. Vinearical Brigade said she conducted work Using only drones and minced robots that led to Russian troops surrender without Ukrainian victims.
But these earthly robots are very vulnerable to drones, especially during daylight. The UGVs can also be used in one-way strike strikes, driving into enemy trenches or logistical bridges to detonate and destroy and remove mines.
In the future, the soldiers expect to also serve as air defense, portable turrets that run around and shooting at the sky. At the beginning of August, 28. The mechanized brigade revealed what was the first war-air defense angle: the remote underground robot installs 9×38 needles of Manpas to hire flying flying aircraft while guarding crews under the cover.
Trcs of technological weapons between Kiev and Moscow
After several years of war, Moscow learned from many mistakes. Now Russia is also working on the development of fleet of minced robots. The Russian news report in August showed an angle armed with four thermobaric clamps.
The leadership of Ukraine hopes to implement at least 15,000 of these robots until the end of 2025. years, but Russians also try to innovate and imply ground robots, using these impeccable systems for similar functions.
Samuel Bendett, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a new American Security, Told Me That While Both Ukraine and Russia Are Pursuing Decentralized Approaches to Ground Robots, “Ukraine Is Taking The Lead With Its Brave1 Initiative and Growing Production Pipeline,” Adding That “Russia Still Relies Heavily on Fragmented, Volunteer-Led Efforts at The Front.”
Deborah Fairlamb, a co-founder of the green flag, a risk capital Fund for Ukrainian starts, “whether the Western collective love it or not, UAWS and UGVs are now part of the battlefield of the terrain for Russia and China.”
The Ukrainian Brigade continuously experimented with the new battlefield of the role for UGVS, from air defense to attacks and one-way striking missions.
“Russia learned from this war and adapts. China also watches and learns,” she added.
Experiments with the future of UGW
The Ukrainian soldier called Kostas, known as “El Greco” from 3. Assault Brigade, told me that their main task is to logistics and medical evacuation for now. “Expand to attack or fire support, we need to reduce costs and simplify operations,” he said.
Some of the new countries are adapted for one-way missions. These Kamikaze UGVs, said Costas, are equipped with Starlink terminals “when targeting high-value funds, like tanks.”
The challenge added, is that “you have to change the drone yourself, pay starlink and add components. It is expensive and takes the job.”
Civilian innovators build Ukraine of technological shield
While the soldiers are experimenting with a tactic on the battlefield, civil innovators in the form of technological pipeline. “Ukrainian engineers create the future of warfare, not only for Ukraine, but also for the world,” Liuba Shipovic, General Manager of Dignitary Ukraine. “People with us we are doing with love. Some officers hate us because we push them to do more work,” she said.
Started Shipovich’s Tim Dignitas Ukraine Robots winThe initiative is intended for quickly accelerated field systems on the front lines. Volunteers over organizations like Dignified They work on promoting an angle over the units on the front, as their instructors train soldiers to use them.
In June, the Group announces the group that “building technical advantages for Ukraine’s veterans” to “protect life and reduce human losses.” Volunteers such as Dignitas accelerate military adoption of new technologies and bridging communication gaps between the brigade forward. Digititas ensures that they document the best practices and share them between different units, scaling the most effective solutions.
“Ukrainian engineers create the future of warfare, not only for Ukraine, but for the world,” Brodovi said. She added that the next phase for the Ukraine army to develop quickly ai and weave it into the country of robotics.
For now, in the UGV fleet, the work remains in progress. But Kiev sees them as a cornerstone of the future robotic army – those who could help in disposal of MANJKOVIĆ’s workforce and keeps more soldiers on the path of damage. Push reflects a higher strategy for creating a Shield technological This strengthens Ukraine’s defense and ensures that Kiev can stay in the fight for many years to come.
