Ukraine's Khartia Brigade Uses Land Drones for Survival on the Frontline

Essential Land Drones on the Frontline

• 💡 Unmanned ground vehicles, or land drones, are crucial for the Khartia brigade in the Kharkiv region to deliver supplies like food and ammunition.
• 🚀 These slow-moving buggies, with a top speed of 10 km/h, navigate muddy paths and can take over 3 hours for a single trip.
• ⚠️ The primary reason for their use is the extreme danger posed by airborne drone attacks, making traditional vehicles too risky.

Evacuating Wounded Soldiers

• 🩹 Land drones are also used for evacuating wounded soldiers, a task that requires increased speed over certain sections.
• 💔 The risk of airborne drones attacking a land drone carrying a human is significant, leading some wounded soldiers to refuse evacuation by this method.
• 😥 Soldiers like Kachoro have refused, fearing that playing dead inside a bag on the drone would not prevent enemy attacks.

Challenges and Risks

• 🛰️ Enemy drones, capable of flying up to 30 km, pose a constant threat, making movement in pickups or armored vehicles extremely dangerous.
• ⏳ Due to the risks of travel, infantrymen are often forced to remain in exposed forward positions for months on end.
• 📉 Supply drones are sometimes destroyed, leading to shortages of essential items like food and water for soldiers.
• 🤕 Kachoro's shrapnel wounds went untreated for two weeks because he refused land drone evacuation and had to find alternative means to leave the frontline.