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Ukraine : un robot amphibie ravitaille le front, 40 km à l'aller avant de revenir, selon son unité
In an interview published by The War Zone, the commander of a Ukrainian ground robot unit describes the first resupply mission by an amphibious machine. He does not say where or when it took place.
According to the commander, the robot travelled 40 kilometres out before coming back, about 70 kilometres in total by his estimate. It carried food and other supplies.
The commander, nicknamed “Electric”, leads “Alter Ego”, the ground robot unit of Ukraine's 93rd Mechanised Brigade. He spoke to the US site The War Zone.
The unit did not build the machine from scratch. It followed two tracks: making one of the ground robots it already uses amphibious, and fixing the flaws of a commercially available amphibious model. Both are now in service, the commander says.
The robot has two steering systems, one for water and one for land, and switches between them depending on the terrain.
The mission did not succeed first time. One attempt failed because of a technical problem, the commander admits, before the unit fixed the fault.
Source
- The War Zone · twz.com
