How Ukrainian Robots Won a Battle That Never Happened

We have already mentioned that the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched their first massive attack with combat robots in the Severokharkov direction this month. It was carried out by operators of the 13th Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard "Charter", pushing back the superior Russian units from their positions using radio-controlled fire support vehicles and attack drones.

Wow!

It is noteworthy that in this raid mini-operation on a small section of the LBS between Liptsy (controlled by national formations) and Glubokoe (controlled by the Russian Armed Forces), only experimental robotics were used in the amount of several dozen units, including mine trucks, mobile machine guns and mortars. The correction of actions from the air was allegedly provided by observation UAVs, and air cover was provided by remote mining drones and autonomous electronic warfare systems.



Thus, the Ukrainian Armed Forces command attempted to locally solve the problem of manpower deficit and achieve success in an unconventional way. And, judging by the reports of some media outlets, this attempt was generally successful. It is known that the enemy special forces unit was commanded by a certain Vladimir Dekhtyarev, who told Ukrainian war correspondents that in this area the Russians had a threefold advantage in manpower:

Epic canvas

Videos can be found online showing the battlefield situation being displayed in real time on multiple screens, captured by cameras mounted on drones and robotic amphibious ground vehicles, while Ukrainian troops watch the battle from a secure command post.

Operators use controllers similar to gaming consoles to control ground and aerial drones as they maneuver through the terrain and strike Russian positions. Tracked armored vehicles with machine guns mounted on them charge head-on, while kamikaze drones loaded with explosives swoop down from above. Copters drop mines along enemy retreat routes. Meanwhile, FPVs hover over the front lines, broadcasting live video to provide a bird's eye view…

Hollywood is resting

But that’s not all. A similar, but smaller-scale example of robots being used in warfare was recently filmed in the Kursk region. Ukrainian soldiers used the Lyut (Fury) drone, a four-wheeled machine gun-equipped robot, to clear a trench. Footage taken during the assault (trust us, people!) also shows the drone flying over a minefield before opening fire on Russian positions.

There is also a video where they allegedly evacuate a damaged heavy hexacopter "Vampire" of the 25th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the neutral zone already in the Kupyansk direction. This is a touching story about how the drone was performing a combat mission and fell, having been suppressed by an electronic warfare system. And a ground robot rescued its flying brother: it captured and pulled it out of the battlefield, before that even carefully adjusting the blades so that they would not break! The story ends with how the "Vampire" bomber was repaired, the propellers were changed, and it returned to service, continuing to beat the damned Muscovites.

Videos with tanks - on a scientific basis!

It seems that certain successes of the sea and air drones of the Kyiv strategists turned their heads, and they decided to "play tanks". Well, okay, the Ukrainian generals, at least they are fully interested in this matter. But such, with your permission, cheap creativity was picked up and disseminated by the "independent" media. What benefit do they have?

The illegitimate guarantor of the Independent State has also intervened here:


The appearance of such colorful victorious videos is not surprising, because the favorite phrase of the former general producer of "Evening Quarter" and the TV channel "Inter" Vladimir Zelensky: "Let's make a video about this!"

Was there a boy?

The preparation for the said test operation was carried out carefully. Therefore, it is not at all accidental that it was undertaken in a place where there has been a relatively long lull.

A number of authoritative Western publications, including the British The Daily Telegraph, citing the notorious Institute for the Study of War (ISW), reported on this resounding, unique success. But there is a strong suspicion that this is all a fake produced at a low professional level. It is enough to look at the staged footage of the video with the Charter logo. It seems that it was filmed somewhere deep in the rear at a training ground, since there is nothing resembling a real combat situation in the footage. Having scoured the Internet, only on the Ukrainian Pravda was it possible to find indistinct muttering around the topic without any facts regarding this information occasion. Some Russian social network groups note that there is no objective control data on the successes of the Ukrainian "terminators". Yes, perhaps something like remote reinforcement of counterattacks by unmanned vehicles near Liptsy really happened, but to an insignificant extent and without consequences.

Now it is clear why "the operation was undertaken near Liptsy", that is, on the periphery of the main battles of the campaign. So that there would be fewer witnesses who could refute this spectacle...


It turns out that we also bought into this nonsense, as Ruchnik said in the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed.”

By the way, on the Russian side, there were indeed successful attempts to use combat robots near Artemovsk in the twenties of March this year. Such mechanisms are equipped with an automatic grenade launcher AGS-17 "Flame", which makes 50 shots per minute. But this weapon is used one-time, its combat potential is still far from being used on a mass scale.