Ukraine Reveals LETHAL Ground Drone!

Ukraine Reveals LETHAL Ground Drone!

Ukraine is leading the world in tactical drone technology but it’s not just tactics and innovations that they are pioneering they’ve also created some amazing homegrown drone Tech we’ve covered the early Trials of Ukraine’s ground combat vehicle and now we’re going to see as it’s being deployed into the battlefield let’s take a look at what roles the d211 has for Ukraine okay so you guys know that we’ve talked about this vehicle actually pretty extensively on this channel we covered the initial sort of uh trials where they just sent out some footage uh where it was just moving autonomously across Fields place to place kind of behind the lines and then we had some of their very early like trial combat missions and then now we’re seeing an extensive deployment uh plan for this D21 and one of the things you guys got to understand understand about this kind of system is that under the pressure of combat Ukraine can’t wait to innovate it’s got to put stuff out into the battlefield quickly and double down on what works as everyone knows drones have become an essential part of the war between Russia and Ukraine but up until this point most drone systems in action are in the air so flying however in the past years a lot of time money and effort has been put into the development of groundbased systems and today that is exactly what we will see it’s called d211 it was developed and manufactured locally here in Ukraine and the producers feel that it’s ready to be actually put into action the d211 can do many things if you put a machine gun on it it’s basically a killer robot if you take the machine gun off it can be used to evacuate dead or wounded soldiers and also to bring supplies ammunition water food whatever to the guys in the first lines in the trenches now this is some of those non-combat roles are actually more important I would argue the reason is because the each one of those events is a really really vulnerable time right we’ve seen in other reporting actually from United 24 in fact from this reporter if I remember correctly uh where the process of getting troops to those Frontline trenches often involves driving across Open Fields dangerous roads uh in often an unarmored van and then they have to quickly basically throw uh cases of water pallets of rations uh butane burners ammunition all of it jally throw it out of the van as fast as possible get it into the entrenched positions and then load back up in the van and get out as fast as possible because the Russian drones are always watching and they’re going to watch those main roadways and those that sort of Supply resupply system it’s continuous right soldiers need new supplies every uh 72 hours so there’s so if you know where there’s a Ukrainian position the Russians just have to Simply watch the road approaches to those positions and they know that they can interdict those supplies with drones and other attacks and that results in casualties and a large number of destroyed material in part because you have to do it by the van load right if you’re going to take the risk the thinking is you’re going to risk it for a a large Supply run right fewer large Supply run are more worth it like like the losses if they get destroyed is greater does that make sense so if the Russians take out that van the Ukrainian soldiers in that trench might go a week before a resupply is attempted again right now the appeal of a drone is a is severalfold first the Drone doesn’t need headlights it’s GPS guided so it can operate at night second it it because it can haul smaller amounts continuously right it’s not a human being it can run for it could run Supply runs for 12 hours straight each individual Supply run doesn’t risk soldiers lives and each one is less each individual Supply run is less vulner valuable right it’s also just a smaller Target harder to hit um there’s a lot of advantages similarly medevacs medacs even in the Afghan war it was classic we were trained that the the Insurgent forces would routinely plant an IED to produce casualties and then would have secondary IEDs in place just to Target the soldiers that came out to Aid the wounded Trooper so if there is a vehicle that can recover autonomously a wounded soldier remember a lot of soldiers they’re wounded but they’re awake they can often times move or crawl very you know with some level of Mobility so if it’s just a case of crawling themselves onto a litter or stretcher right now there’s no additional risk to doing a battlefield recovery right you might remember during the counter offensive there was a viral video in which a Ukrainian Soldier was wounded in a Minefield right getting out of a a Bradley I think it was and then his buddy tries to recover him his buddy gets wounded then a third Soldier tries to recover the two wounded soldiers and they are wounded and finally the Bradley Commander has to say no more soldiers attempt recovery they F they roll up and get out leaving the wounded behind it was a total disaster and this vehicle would reduce that right if they had a vehicle like this they would not have taken those additional three casualties they would have had just the one casualty and he would have had a chance to be recovered by a drone not by a fellow Soldier risking their life so today the uh developers will introduce their drone show what it can what it can’t do to a brigade of the Ukrainian Army the third separate assault Brigade and after that one of the drones will be presented to them and they will take it into war like with every new system understanding it okay YouTube sensors this is this is directed to you guys YouTube sensors please please don’t this is all as he just said it’s training events I’m going to censor all the combat so don’t don’t demonetize me please please don’t demonetize me guys if you’re interested in seeing the uncensored actual No Cap combat footage those videos that analysis right that’s hosted on combat news.com for members it’s the best way to support the channel because YouTube always cracking down on war content especially in an election year it’s kind of weird so if you’re interested in supporting what I do the reporting I do the analysis I do um any one of these tiers will get you access to the twice weekly uncensored combat video analysis we take footage from primarily Ukraine but all across the battlefields of the world and we analyze the tactics we look at the footage and it’s uncensored so we get some raw stuff oftentimes it’s as little as 24 hours old sometimes so if you’re interested in supporting the channel check it out combat vet news.com anyway thanks to everybody that supports us over there it really it it makes a huge difference and learning how to use it is essential before deploying it in a combat environment where any mistake can have huge consequences from losing the robot in the best case to losing human lives in the worst cuz remember guys there are some other problems uh when you have any systems like this you’ve got to understand what it can and can’t do but also you have to understand how you can employ it my first thoughts when I look at a vehicle like this is that it could lower or broadcast the location of of Ukrainian troops right uh it could broadcast Supply Depot there could also be ways that the signal could be interdicted or intercepted um that would allow Russia to track it right so there’s a lot of things you should understand uh before you you operate it God bless God bless it one of the things that I love and never gets old for me is the fact that you have video game controllers right video game controllers famously used by a ton of people that want this kind of simple Innovative uh a control scheme right uh notably us submarines uh adopted a I think it was an Xbox controller uh for control right um let’s see I for control if I think it’s the cont Tower yeah here we go uh US Navy swapping $38,000 Periscope joysticks for $30 Xbox controllers on Hightech submarines this was from 2017 um and the reason is simple uh the Xbox controller is actually perfect right it’s it because it’s designed right for precision movement an intuitive Precision movement right if you can get a head shot on some other goober on fortnite with it it’s good enough for almost any level of military Precision right and best of all a huge portion of the young Sailors already know how to use it that’s I think a a huge appeal right men I I mean the rate at which men play video games or young boys right like I wonder what percent of boys play video games let’s see so oh my God in 2008 99% of boys played video games other studies found 93% of boys played video games 80% of boys 13 to 15 play video games in one study younger boys more likely to play than older boys gam can be a top interest for boys 8 to 15 right what percentage of males play video games it says 53% of males are Gamers 52% of Gamers Subs to at least one gaming service it it’s more than that right why do 9 four years ago why do 92% of teenage boys play video games right and so 90% of children over two play video games three quars of American households have a video game console I and I think that’s so basically it’s fair to say that if you see a man in his 20s he there is a something like a 90% chance he has spent at least some period of time behind a controller like this so why mess with what’s not working why [Music] mess 13510 is the burst rate a one a one round pop a three five and a 10 is it’s um it’s singleshot uh what we would call sustained cyclic and Rapid Fire rates they have they’re they’re doctrinally different they’re meant for different things the system can be reworked from a transport mechanism to a deadly weapon in only a few minutes the adjustments can be done directly on the front line oh [Music] [Applause] so it took them just a couple of minutes to mount the machine gun on the chassis and uh it really feels like something from the movies of my childhood has come true Terminator or Matrix the time of The Killer Robots has come for sure the advantages are clear where you would otherwise need a human to pull the trigger the machine gunner can now assault the enemy remotely this is absolutely potentially gamechanging imagine because right now if you wanted to conduct a flanking maneuver right you have a base of fire and then you have flanks but let’s say you would have sit there and go okay we could it could literally change tactics you could literally make contact with the Enemy on an assault and then suddenly flank from directions that the enemy doesn’t expect you they go ah this this field is mine or there’s no way they’re going to flank us across an open field but you get a drone particularly an armored one like this right like what are small arms going to even do to this not much of anything right unless you nail a a a this tiny lens of a camera camera right this thing can go out it can flank it can deliver fire from different directions so this can perform the flanking maneuver a and allow you would have to sort of do a little bit of a Switcheroo so you’d have to say Okay human beings establish a base of fire two drones flank and become Static machine gun positions now they’re the base of fire and the human element Begins the assault it would be a really game-changing uh innovation and would enable even small units to conduct robust assaults but while assaulting is undoubtedly the don’t need to see this gotta write down the time so that I can edit this out later or censor it later so that uh YouTube doesn’t demonetize me thanks most dangerous task a close second is getting two and from positions even if they are under Ukrainian control Russian fpv Artillery and this is a compilation of um dash cams of Ukrainian uh troops getting hit with artillery fpv drones as they drive across roads units always looks exactly like the dash cams that used to show IED strikes looking for troops on rotation when they have to leave cover and move through the open unmanned ground Vehicles like the d211 are supposed to ease all these tasks from assisting assault units by providing fire support to Bringing supplies or by serving as an off-road taxi okay this does not look like that helpful uh we’ve seen for example this looks just like the golf carts the Russians are using as part of their assault right to cover uh roadways and and and other sort of rear lines rapidly to prevent drones from detecting and then striking them to make it harder for artillery to dial in locations speed is the best defense and and that’s true but there’s not really a special Innovation having troops on here I don’t see the troops as being a game changer cuz the appeal is the things you can do while risking no lives right but risking four versus a having a driver like if one of these guys drove it it’s just a golf cart [Music] to be honest it feels a little bit like something rich people would invent so they don’t have to walk anywhere it has headlights brake lights indicator this bar to hold on to but if someone’s shooting at you or things are exploding around you or you’re just tired because you haven’t slept in 3 days then you’re probably really grateful that this thing can I look at this and I don’t think this is that effective for a like physically capable ambulatory troops but but if let’s say we’ve seen a lot of leg wounds because remember body armor covering the upper body here to sit there and be like yo three guys we have three casualties with tourni legs instead of needing a buddy to limp them out they just get loaded onto this they all they need is to be able to grip this and then they get fied out right a medac vehicle this thing would be awesome and take you where you need to go so it’s a quite a Nifty creation to be honest commanders like zoric are hoping to save lives and Manpower with these machines a resource that has become increasingly scarce as the war in Ukraine progresses first of all we need Logistics and we want to minimize human loss so that robots right one of the things that he’s not kidding Logistics are Game Changer and we’ve talked about this that the part of the surge of Aid to Ukraine part of the challenge is that it’s got to get to these guys in the trenches and you see that at every phase the Russians are trying to interdict it right so so they’re trying to hit it in warehouses deep in the Ukrainian uh in urban areas like in Lviv right hitting them with long-range missiles and glide bombs they’re trying to hit them in uh sort of forward support areas with artillery or uh more like thermobaric systems and and even some of their shahad drones they’re trying to hit them again on the roads as they drive into the trenches so being able to make the logistics uh harder to interdict which sometimes sometimes it means taking very concentrated um uh targets which are appealing and dispersing them again depending on the cost of this drone if you could get the logistics the cost of delivering instead of doing one van run or one run with a five ton you sit there and go okay it’s going to be 50 runs with this drone but you’re just going to change the battery it’s going to do a 7 km round trip and it just gets in change the battery put it on the charger load up another pallet and send it off it can run instead of doing r one run a week for example you say hey it runs for 12 hours straight and then so that way if it gets interdicted the losses are lesser fight not people it saved many lives so it has the right to be on the battlefield to continue developing [Applause] with unfolded seats the d211 can transport a heavily wounded soldier to sa YouTube sensors this is an example there’s clearly no wounds on this man a task that would usually require four men that often means leaving and giving up a position with a robot like this not only can the remaining soldiers stay at the front lines but the robot can even bring a healthy Soldier as a substitute before evacuating the wounded for ugvs are just starting to be used in large numbers but with the war becoming ever more deadly robots like the d211 are set to provide some much needed relief for the Armed Forces of Ukraine where many soldiers are now well into their third year of War right this is the thing guys anytime in medicine we they sometimes call it operating at the top of your license and it’s a concept that is essential in scaling a system right if you’re a soldier there are some things that a robot just cannot do right it can’t distinguish friend from enemy it can’t reliably engage in complex tactics like a flank or a suppress and fire and maneuver um you can’t communicate with other soldiers to perform like trench clearing um to size up a situation and move through right there’s some things that only a human can do and the idea is that you take the humans you have and you focus them onto the things that only they can do um diagnose and repair mechanical issues change an engine in a in a in a a striker or a main battle tank right fix a track um treat someone who’s wounded Right provid medical care and so you have to look at all the other tasks that can be automated and you have to automate them this is something that any Tech innovator Tech bro Tech founder is going to tell you that at some point they sat there and said listen we have 50 people and we have 200 people’s worth of work so we need to bring in tools that enable us to be really really efficient and automate everything um and so that is sort of the perspective that Ukraine is bringing to this they’re treating War like a tech company um and we know in the west that we spent 20 years losing the war in Afghanistan at least here in the United States in those same 20 years we produced some of the greatest technological innovations in human history right we’ve we’ve we’ve used technology to connect people and things and ideas that were that would have been science fiction 30 years ago so that mentality I think needs to be brought into the military sphere and Ukraine seems to be doing it anyway guys that is all I had be sure to like this video And subscribe to the channel if you enjoy this type of content right it helps tell me it helps tell the algorithm that what I’m making is good important content and of course a huge thank you to our Colonel tier members and our Lieutenant tier members all of you guys on combat vet news this is I couldn’t do it without you guys thank you so much and I’ll see you in the next one cheers

Keep Me Independent, Get Uncensored Combat Analysis at https://www.combatvetnews.com/become-a-member

Original Video: https://youtu.be/CkkTI7PLQM4?si=jBX15Pg2-_uM5JYw

Become a Member for exclusive perks!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYdyjyHjKMzltuatKxkudw/join

Channel Manager/General Inquiries :Dan@combatvetnews.com
Sponsorship Inquiries : cvr.mhgr@intheblackmedia.com
https://deepstatemap.live/#10/50.1563/36.5534
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates

➧Discord! discord.gg/ZmhCTJmAhW
➧MHGR! youtube.com/c/militaryhistorygearreview
➧Instagram: instagram.com/Combatvetnews

Get the essential National Security News FREE Right to your inbox with the Strategic SitRep https://strategicsitrep.com/subscribe

Become a Member for exclusive perks!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYdyjyHjKMzltuatKxkudw/join

Original Video:
https://deepstatemap.live/#10/50.1563/36.5534
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates

➧Discord! discord.gg/ZmhCTJmAhW
➧MHGR! youtube.com/c/militaryhistorygearreview
➧Instagram: instagram.com/Combatvetnews

*Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS

*Disclaimers: all opinions are my own, sponsors are acknowledged. Not financial advice, for entertainment purposes only.