Ukraine Just Organized The First All-Robot D-Day
An unmanned raiding force landed on the Kinburn Spit
The first-ever all-robot D-Day was probably more an experiment than a serious military operation. And it played out on advantageous terrain for the forces behind the robots.
But that doesn’t make it any less impressive.
On June 25, the Ukrainian 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade sailed several unmanned surface vessels across the western Black Sea and landed gun-armed unmanned ground vehicles on the Kinburn Spit, at the westernmost edge of the Russian occupation zone in southern Ukraine.
The 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade released a video montage—shot by a USV, a UGV and an escorting UAV—depicting the UGV firing on a Russian installation with its suppressed .50-caliber machine gun.
It was an all-robot amphibious assault. “An impressive feat,” RAND analyst Michael Bohnert wrote.
