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.
If you can’t understand that its because of the context, and that your brief initial comment is ignorant/simple, then it is probably not worth trying to persuade you towards any nuance involved here. Furthermore, no where is it mentioned that these weapons are autonomous; just robots/drones, giving a country under invasion a much needed advantage. Some of your comments seem to indicate a support of Russia, so again, likely spurious effort here.
There is no context that makes these weapons okay, and I have never supported Russia.
I get that reading is hard for liberals, which is why liberals exist in the first place, but do try a bit harder.
The big brained response is disappointing yet not surprising. No one said they’re ok, just that you made erroneous claims and are over simple. Ironic comment about dur reading is hard. Very low effort and trite.
“giving a country under invasion a much needed advantage”
So advantage is not ok? It’s not a positive thing? It’s not normalization of one of hte most environmentally and socially destructive technologies?
What is the alternative that you are ok with?
Diplomacy and asymmetric warfare. If you are actually being invaded and your response is to destroy your own environment while implementing weapons that indiscriminately kill, you don’t care about the people you’re protecting and you have no concern of the world after the war.
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!
Fuck you, Russian fascist. That is all.