Drones took 2 nights to lay a minefield that would have taken troops 2 weeks: Ukrainian corps
The Ukrainian Third Army Corps successfully used aerial and ground drones to deploy a minefield in two nights, a task that would have taken human troops two weeks. This operation, part of a wider offensive in Donetsk, demonstrates the increasing role of uncrewed systems in modern warfare.
Why it matters
It illustrates the rapid evolution of military logistics and combat tactics through the integration of autonomous and remote-controlled systems.
The TerMIT was one of the ground drones shown off in mock-up videos attached to the 3rd Army Corps' announcement. Alina Smutko/REUTERS Ukrainian troops said their ground and aerial drones have cut minelaying time by orders of magnitude. They said the drones laid a quarter-mile of mines in 2 days, which is a 2-week job for human troops. The operation was part of a recent wider offensive in Donetsk by the Third Army Corps. A Ukrainian army corps said it used aerial and ground drones to lay a minefield roughly a quarter-mile deep, in one of the war's first large-scale instances of remote mining with uncrewed systems. The Third Army Corps said on Wednesday that its drones took two nights to deploy the mines, a task that "would take humans about two weeks."
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