Image source: topwar.ru
The head of the office of the head of the Kiev regime, Andrei Ermak, published footage showing the work of what is claimed to be a ground-based kamikaze drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the footage, you can see how the mine-loaded device moves across the field, then drives into a forest belt, where it explodes. Apparently, the Ukrainian leadership intends to use the mass introduction of various unmanned systems into the troops to offset the growing shortage of artillery ammunition.
Image source: topwar.ru
Image source: topwar.ru
However, the success of the potential mass use of such drones, at least in its current form, is highly controversial. Unlike aerial and marine drones, ground-based drones move on the ground and significantly depend on the features of the terrain and weather conditions. The ground-based drone demonstrated by Ermak is technologically no more complicated than delivery drones, which are massively used in Russian cities.
Earlier, the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Strategic Industries, Alexander Kamyshin, announced Kiev's ambitious plans to robotize its army, but at the same time he was forced to admit its unrealizability without the help of the West.
According to him, the Ukrainian industry, provided uninterrupted Western supplies, is capable of producing more than a million drones of various types, including models with a range of more than a thousand kilometers, as well as ground-based drones. But everything is bad with Western supplies. Therefore, all such statements and publications are frankly populist in nature and are designed mainly for an internal target audience.