This is a massive innovation in lifesaving technology! The idea of doing this is one thing, actually DOING it and ironing out the issues is what makes this a genuine revolution in lifesaving. In the future when people look back at the industry of UGVs and how they changed search and rescue as well as disaster response for the better, when people talk about all the countless lives that it has saved, THIS will be the video that will be shown at the beginning of the story.
Two soldiers jump out of the tree line, carrying a wounded colleague and load him into a tiny box-shaped vehicle.
They barely have time to get clear as an artillery blast engulfs the area 20 meters away. But the vehicle keeps trundling forward, occasionally taking cover under foliage, even as hostile fire detonates all around it. According to First Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who posted the video, the wounded man made it to the medics, who were able to save his life.
This evacuation on the Pokrovsk front, reported by Fedorov on 15 October, would not have been possible without the Zmiy, an unmanned ground vehicle used for logistics and demining, which carried the wounded soldier out of the fire zone, while taking multiple hits from 152 mm shells, a mine explosion, an FPV drone and small arms fire.
The Brave Little UGV!