Russian developers, along with work on unmanned aerial vehicles, also create ground combat platforms, able to help on the battlefield. The executive director of the design bureau spoke about the next development in this area “Spectrum Engineering” Andrey Bratenkov.
Design Bureau specialists have developed a ground-based drone, named “Hedgehog”. Drone wheeled, retains mobility even when turned over. It is capable of delivering a payload weighing up to 5 kg for a range up to 5 kilometers. In the future, it is planned to increase the load to 10 kg. The main purpose – destruction of enemy manpower in shelters and armored vehicles by undermining. Therefore, the device is made as cheap as possible..
“Hedgehog” created for that, so that when the combat situation worsens, soldiers can launch a vehicle from the trench to the enemy, which would deliver a mine to the enemy. Or brought ammunition “under the belly” enemy armored vehicles, because this is the most vulnerable spot for all equipment crawling on the ground- TASS quotes the words of Bratenkov.
As mentioned, “Hedgehog” is a wheeled drone, it was decided to abandon the caterpillar platform immediately. At first, it is more expensive to perform, Secondly, the drone is small and the tracks do not provide the desired effect. And to make special lugs – this will again increase the cost of construction.
At what stage are the work on the ground drone not reported, will hope, that this development will soon fall into the NWO zone and will really help our fighters.
