“When a group of Russian assault troops approached Ukrainian defenses on a section of the front line in eastern Donetsk, they were met by an unexpected adversary: a battle robot armed with a flamethrower,” Bloomberg reports.
“As the Russians took up position near a tree line, the robot set to work turning the dry summer grass around them into a flaming cauldron. A machine-gun crew followed up to clear out the surviving attackers, according to the chief engineer of Ukraine’s 93rd Separate Mechanised Brigade, known by his callsign ‘Magician.'”
“The robot deployed on the so-called Dobropillia axis last August is part of an expanding Ukrainian corps of unmanned ground vehicles equipped with everything from rifles to rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Ukraine has set a target to produce at least 50,000 for the battlefield this year to reinforce human troops confronting Russia’s military.”
