Ukraine drone evacuates wounded soldier
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Ukraine's Army shared video of a drone evacuation in which a wounded soldier strapped himself into a harness beneath a heavy six-rotor hexacopter and was flown to safety on the frontline. The time and location were not disclosed. The operation came days after Ukrainian casualty-evacuation drones entered frontline testing, going beyond decades of US military experimentation with similar concepts.
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Ukraine's Army shared video of a drone evacuation in which a wounded soldier secured himself in a harness beneath a heavy six-rotor hexacopter and was flown to safety on the frontline. The operation, at an undisclosed time and place, came days after Ukrainian casualty-evacuation drones entered frontline testing, going beyond decades of US military experimentation with similar concepts.
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