Matthew Loh
Russia has increasingly been trialing new types of ground drones as Ukraine's robot war heats up.
Designs include a "dronobus" for fiber optic drones, a chair on a buggy, and a box on wheels.
Russian officials say they want to exponentially scale up ground combat drone production.
Ukraine's drone industry has developed a wide array of new uncrewed ground vehicles, but Russian forces are innovating with their own designs, too.
While Moscow has been testing remote ground-based weapons since the early years of the war, a wider variety of rudimentary — and sometimes unusual — designs have been emerging this summer.
Take, for example, a remote-controlled four-wheel buggy that pro-Russian Telegram channels called an "assault" Termit drone from a battalion of the 58th Guards Combined Arms Army.
Instead of a weapons system, it's fitted with a chair that can accommodate a single soldier. Its rear can stow weapons, food, and water containers, the popular Russian Telegram channel Military Informant wrote in a post on Wednesday.
Notably, this Termit drone variant leaves the soldier completely exposed.
Another unique type of Russian logistics ground drone was recently filmed by a Ukrainian first-person-view drone. A clip published on Sunday by Ukrainian drone crowdfunding activist Serhii Sternenko shows that the Russian design essentially featured an open box on wheels.
Sternenko wrote that the ground drone was destroyed and was transporting provisions near the front lines.
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