乌克兰无人机从战场救援伤兵，将备受推崇的理念付诸实践
Ukraine’s drone rescue of wounded soldier puts much touted idea into practice
乌克兰无人机成功从战场前线将一名受伤士兵运送到安全地带，验证了该技术在实战中的可行性。此次行动发生在俄乌冲突前线，此前乌克兰已部署专门用于伤员撤离的无人机进行前线测试，超越美国军方数十年来对类似概念的实验。伤员通过悬挂在六旋翼重型无人机下的安全带被运走，该事件被视为战场伤员撤离方式的重大历史性进展。
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.”
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