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Ukraine’s 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade says it evacuated a wounded soldier from a front line position using a heavy hexacopter drone in a first of its kind operation. According to the brigade, a soldier from the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade was injured at a position that could not be reached by conventional evacuation means due to heavy enemy drone activity and mines. Specialists from the 92nd Brigade’s unmanned ground systems company used a heavy hexacopter made by Ukrainian company Gurzuf Defence to rescue the injured soldier. The brigade says the soldier survived and is now receiving treatment. It credited the 92nd, 30th and 14th Separate Mechanized Brigades, the 10th Army Corps a


Ukraine’s 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade says it evacuated a wounded soldier from a front line position using a heavy hexacopter drone in a first of its kind operation.

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According to the brigade, a soldier from the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade was injured at a position that could not be reached by conventional evacuation means due to heavy enemy drone activity and mines. Specialists from the 92nd Brigade’s unmanned ground systems company used a heavy hexacopter made by Ukrainian company Gurzuf Defence to rescue the injured soldier.

The brigade says the soldier survived and is now receiving treatment. It credited the 92nd, 30th and 14th Separate Mechanized Brigades, the 10th Army Corps and Gurzuf Defence.
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