One of the true revolutions of this war are practical unmanned ground vehicles.

The applications for these machines for peacetime work is huge, these are essentially all terrain self powered dollies that are also giant battery stores. Further, these kinds of machines are ideal for disaster response especially the amphibious ones... and more important than the machines for disaster response are all the Ukrainian veterans who have gained extensive experience deploying unmanned vehicles in coordinated ways to save lives and solve problems.

I think there is a symbolism to the way that UGVs were used very early on by Ukraine to evacuate wounded, it mirrors the history of how pilots quickly innovated with helicopters to evacuate wounded and it is a great sign for the future of the industry of UGVs given the kaleidoscope of uses helicopters went on to find in the world as a tool.

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago

Wow that's a lot, at the risk of pointing out the obvious that's 1000 per day. Impressive. 👍

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