乌克兰用无人机从前线吊运撤离受伤士兵
Ukraine’s drone rescue of wounded soldier puts much touted idea into practice
乌克兰军方公布一段视频，显示一名受伤士兵被固定在六旋翼重型无人机下方的吊带上，随后被空运至安全地带。此次撤离发生在前线一处未公开的时间和地点，因俄军无人机与地雷的存在，轮式地面机器人无法前往。乌军第92独立突击旅无人地面系统连的程序员 Napalm 称这是历史性事件，并表示接下来将开始系统性工作，让此类任务常态化。报道提到，就在数天前，乌克兰用于伤员后送的无人机刚投入前线测试。
Ukraine’s unprecedented drone rescue of a wounded soldier from the battlefield has shown once again how battlefield necessity can spur innovation. The operation was revealed just days after separate Ukrainian drones designed for casualty evacuation were deployed for frontline testing—taking a step beyond the US military’s decades of experimentation with similar concepts.
The drone evacuation of the injured soldier took place at an undisclosed time and place on the frontline where the presence of Russian drones and landmines made it impractical to send in a wheeled ground robot, according to The Kyiv Independent. On October 19, Ukraine’s Army shared a video of the drone evacuation, showing the wounded soldier securing himself in a harness suspended beneath a heavy hexacopter drone with six rotors before being flown to safety.
“This is a historic event, the next stage of evacuating the wounded, which we will all come to,” said Napalm, a programmer of the 92nd separate assault brigade's unmanned ground systems company, who went by his callsign per Ukrainian military practice, in a statement. “Now the serious systematic work begins, so that such missions are carried out constantly.”
来源：Ars Technica · AI · arstechnica.com