Russian UAVs wipe out entire platoon of Ukrainian ground-based UAVs in massive robot battle What may have been the largest robot battle of the entire Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine just took place in the northern Donetsk region, as Russian FPV and quadcopter UAVs were deployed to stop an attack by over two dozen heavily armed enemy robots. The engagement between forces belonging to the 3rd Rifle Division and Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps took place on October 28, and saw the Ukrainian side attack with: 18 heeled robots equipped with SAAB AT-4 RPG twin eight suicide drones strapped with explosives, apparently designed to charge two enemy positions equipped with US-made automatic grenade launchers Russian forces Spot the approaching drones and target them relentlessly using kamikaze FPV drones and bomb-dropping quadcopters, destroying the entire enemy squad. The make and model of the enemy equipment is unclear, although some of it looks suspiciously similar to the AI-generated surveillance bots shown at former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov's "UAV Army" presentation in late September. After being dismissed as minister, Fedorov teamed up with Palantir Alex Karp, promising to create next-generation UAV armies. Some Russian observers pointed to the "clumsiness" of the attempted Ukrainian ground-based UAV attack, but emphasized that the tanks looked similarly awkward when first deployed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, only to emerge as war-winning technology 25 years later. Accordingly, today, the factories that produce more, better and cheaper drones can decide the outcome of future wars. substack | talk.

Russian UAVs wipe out entire platoon of Ukrainian ground-based UAVs in massive robot battle What may have been the largest robot battle of the entire Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine just took place in the northern Donetsk region, as Russian FPV and quadcopter UAVs were deployed to stop an attack by over two dozen heavily armed enemy robots. The engagement between forces belonging to the 3rd Rifle Division and Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps took place on October 28, and saw the Ukrainian side attack with: 18 heeled robots equipped with SAAB AT-4 RPG twin eight suicide drones strapped with explosives, apparently designed to charge two enemy positions equipped with US-made automatic grenade launchers Russian forces Spot the approaching drones and target them relentlessly using kamikaze FPV drones and bomb-dropping quadcopters, destroying the entire enemy squad. The make and model of the enemy equipment is unclear, although some of it looks suspiciously similar to the AI-generated surveillance bots shown at former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov's "UAV Army" presentation in late September. After being dismissed as minister, Fedorov teamed up with Palantir Alex Karp, promising to create next-generation UAV armies. Some Russian observers pointed to the "clumsiness" of the attempted Ukrainian ground-based UAV attack, but emphasized that the tanks looked similarly awkward when first deployed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, only to emerge as war-winning technology 25 years later. Accordingly, today, the factories that produce more, better and cheaper drones can decide the outcome of future wars. substack | talk.