Victor Pavlov showed off Ukraine’s newest and most versatile weapon: a battery-powered land robot.
The unmanned ground vehicles come in various shapes and sizes. One runs on caterpillar tracks and resembles a roofless milk float. Another has wheels and antennas. A third carries anti-tank mines. Since spring 2024 their use has grown exponentially.
“This is what modern warfare looks like. Armies everywhere will have to robotise,” said Pavlov, a lieutenant with Ukraine’s 3rd army corps.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its fifth year and the conflict – Europe’s biggest since 1945 – has seen an astonishing transformation of battlefield weapons and tactics. The war has become a technological contest, fought not with expensive tanks but with cheap and expendable drones that can deliver bombs with deadly accuracy.
Ukraine’s drone expertise is now highly sought after amid the US-Israeli war against Iran. Last week Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed 10-year defence agreements with several Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to provide them with low-cost Ukrainian interceptors. They can shoot down long-range kamikaze Shahed drones, used by Tehran in its attacks on its neighbours, and by Moscow.
they don’t kill indiscriminately, just the enemy. what are you on about. and the environment angle really? next you will tell me russia is using only eco friendly bombs and drones. to be able to think about the world after the war you must have the world after the war. if you lose the war someone else will think about your world and i bet anything that they won’t be thinking about your precious environment. grow up
Except when they do. Both Ukraine and Russia have posted HD drone video showing internationally recognized war crimes targeting civilians and unarmed surrendered soldiers, as well as medical transports and civilian infrastructure and buildings.
The Guided Weapon fallacy is well documented at this point, drones are an extension of this, the drones mentioned in the article which have even fewer safeguards and fewer human steps make this much worse.
To the rest of your nonsense, no. This isn’t a life or death war. The Ukrainian people that were created 30 years ago will not disappear if they lose. Hell Russia doesn’t even want Ukraine according to Ukraine or Russian negotiations.
This is literally a local territory dispute that has cost more lives than could be saved if Ukraine or Russia won today.
We have a good 100 years left on this planet, at most, before climate change forces around 80% of us to die. Why waste this destroying what little land might be livable during that time… over 3 territories that don’t objectively matter to Ukraine?
Ok now your angle is clear!
And that is?
Fuck you, Russian fascist. That is all.
Not Russian, The opposite of fascist hence why I’m against Ukraine and Russia.
But nice try liberal. Maybe the fediverse isn’t right for you, since you align with u/spez 100% and should be on reddit.
Guys chill im an antinazi it means want disabled people to gas the Germans.
I don’t think they’re smart enough to parse that, you really have to break down anything that isn’t what their owners’ told them.
Oh my god man, it’s you. You’re the antinazi for brainlessly parroting every Russian pro-war talking point while claiming to be anti war. Yes the fastest way to end a fight is to kill him.
You know what they call a serial killer that kills serial killers?
The particular conflict in Ukraine is between two capitalist nations. It’s a conflict between fascists & liberals to decide which tricolor is cooler. Call them both fascist if you want because it changes nothing. Every day they fight and die, the elites become 1% more fascist, and the people 1% more miserable.
And if Russia wins, the Ukranian people get to be exploited by maximally fascist ghouls, while being made even more miserable, that’s all. Why the hell would you support that.
…Russia is not wanting to and has never stated and the claim from ukraine has never been the take over of Ukraine.
Where you got this idea is beyond me, since no news coverage has ever suggested as much.
This particular conflict is between Ukraine, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Russia. The stated war goals of Russia, from the start, was to secure Luhansk and Donetsk during their fight for independence.
The Ukrainian point of view is that Russia somehow infiltrated both regions, faked a 90+% vote for independence in those regions, and invaded when Ukraine denied their independence.
Same thing with Crimea so many years earlier.
As far as ‘Russian pro-war talking points’ THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO THIS CONFLICT AND NEITHER SIDE IS MORE RIGHT THAN THE OTHER.
Russia is not ‘the bad guys.’
Ukraine is not ‘the good guys.’
Ukraine is lead by a genocidal dictatorship hell bent on creating a new Israel in the corpse of the Ukrainian territory.
Russia is lead by a genocidal dictatorship hell bent on recreating a capitalist propaganda version of the soviet union.
If Russia wins two new countries get made and fall to the Russian block of allied countries.
If Ukraine wins, at this point, they will spend the next 50 years receiving international aid to the tune of trillions per year to try to recreate what they had before the war. While still dealing with a non-zero amount of their population who DO NOT WANT UKRAINIAN LEADERSHIP ANYWHERE NEAR THEM, after kidnapping kids off the street to fight an unpopular war.
There is no winner in this war, there is no side to root for, both are fully fascist dictatorships with no sense of democracy, but refusing to understand the underlying motivations of either side hurts analysis of other conflicts.
Like the Iran war isn’t over oil, or religion, or even the oppression of the Iranian people.
It is so Israel doesn’t have any threats in the region during their imperialist expansion. If you treated the Iranian war like you people treat the Ukrainian war, you’d assume Israel is the good guys and the victims — which is how Israel has gotten away with genocide for 80 years.
Also, the Luhansk and Donetsk PRs no longer exist as political entities. They were unilaterally annexed several years ago, because, y’know, the aim was never to help them achieve self-determination, but to expand Russia’s borders. This is the exact same thing they plan to do to the rest of Ukraine. Again, extremely obvious.
Israel is a bizarre comparison. I support Iran’s right to exist, and the connection is that both of them are vile offensive wars aimed at killing people or removing their right to self-determination.
Neither Russia nor Israel is going to outright state their maximalist territorial aims, because it would unite their enemies and some people are hopeful or stupid enough to take them in good faith. However, both are ultranationalist organisations, and their ideal world is one where every other ethnicity is eradicated or subsumed by their own. While that’s not realistically possible, they’ll try to achieve the closest thing that is.
If you genuinely believe either of them you’re just gullible, I don’t know how else to say it.
In regards to Donetsk etc, I see no evidence that there’s legit internal support for separatism, and on that basis they’re not legit. If the Russian govt believed that it existed they’d surely would have pushed for a robust and independent plebecite to provide legitimacy to their buffer states. That they tried to stuff the ballots, shows that it’s a crock of shit.
Nice try fascist. No true leftist would side with the oligarch tyrants in Moscow. Go back to /pol.
Again liberal, I haven’t once done so. I know reading is hard, otherwise you’d be a communist, but do try to read things instead of instinctively shut your brain down every time someone questions your chosen propaganda.
Just because someone doesn’t think the guy that took military control of his country, killed elections, had dozens of parliamentary members arrested, and has been kidnapping young men off the streets to fight in one of the least popular wars in that country’s history is a good guy fighting a good fight doesn’t mean they think the equally as fascist Putin is a good guy.
The world isn’t black and white, no matter how much you liberals would love that to be true.
All Fascism is bad. Not just the ones your state told you to hate.
You’re fun, but please learn another term or three for “liberals” so that you can mix it up with different insults for each response.
You should read more! It improves your vocabulary, as of now it seems like you’ve only read some flyers you found in the bathroom at a bus station. Kinda lazy