Tank columns are not what they used to be😅🔥
Droid TW-12.7 - a strike GRC, which is already performing combat missions of the AFU.
Tank columns are not what they used to be😅🔥
Droid TW-12.7 - a strike GRC, which is already performing combat missions of the AFU.
I don’t think these would be very useful in frontal assaults, since they aren’t armored and would be vulnerable to small arms themselves. I think they are more useful as distractions, such as driving them forward to provide suppressing fire so that the ukrainians can reposition to gain an advantage.
The Ukrainians seem to disagree, here’s an article from over a year ago of their first fully robotic combined arms assault, complete with minelaying aerial drones, groundbased suicide bots and those things. The article also mentions one of these units being used in September last year for clearing of a trench. Weak points only seem to be the optical sensors, but in combination with air surveillance drones you might still be able to get use out of one when the sensors are damaged. But it’s really about taking the risk away from their soldiers, and you can do that very well with these things.
eta: the development is real quick btw. first live test in september to combined arms assault in december is pretty bonkers
If these would be as successful as implied, we’d have seen lots and lots of videos of them in operation, from both sides.
Sure, these might work in some small operations but nothing changes the fact that these are far too easily disabled by small arms fire, cheap drones, even anti-personnel mines etc. Now if they’d have their own air defence (small radar/camera array + shotgun), be faster and more agile and someone would be able to solve the control issues under jamming (with God forbid something else than AI), then maybe, maybe these would make a difference in the frontline too.
But until then, only useful outside the drone threat in the rear, or in some diversion missions.