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The ground robots of a European defense company are used by Ukrainian soldiers.
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The experiences there have led to important changes in its products, the CEO of Milrem Robotics told BI.
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He said that the military of Europe should learn from the struggle of Ukraine if Russia attacks.
A NATO -based NATO robotic company based on Russia says that the use of its machines in Ukraine gave valuable insights that made it impossible to rethink and rethink how it could better meet the requirements for the war.
Estonia’s Milrem -Robotic makes autonomous ground robots with which intelligence collects, evacuating wounded troops, disposing of explosive devices and wearing weapons such as machine guns.
The topic -related model, which can wear a payload of up to £ 2,645.5 with up to 12 miles per hour, is in Ukraine, clarifies mines, bears cargo and injured soldiers.
Kuldar Värsi, the founder and CEO of Milrem Robotics, told Business Insider that Western arms manufacturers and military people have to learn from what is happening in Ukraine and that the company’s experiences there have led to some changes in its products.
Väärsi said that developments in Ukraine are “completely different” of peace when weapons are used in training and exercises.
The company has observed exactly ways to do its robots better, both to help Ukraine and to help Europe if necessary.
A key area was the simplicity of use. He said that the Themis was “pretty simple and very easy to control”, but the needs on the battlefield had to be even easier.
He said that in the period of peace the equipment could only be used by experienced troops with training. “In Ukraine you can’t follow in real war,” said Väärsi.
“Basically, everyone who needs this equipment will be more intuitive and easier to ensure the user interface and you can ensure user -friendliness, the more securely you can actually use it properly and be efficiently used and be useful for the troops.”
The electronic break in UkrainePresent In which both sides jam and fake – drones, comms, GPS and more – also triggered major changes in technology with unstalled systems.
“What we have learned and changed and implemented in our systems is everything that relates to EW, communication and cyber,” said Milrem CEO.
Development of countermeasures such as electronic warfare have led to developments such as fiber optic drones and AI-capable drones that are resistant to enemy jamming.
“What we can see as a trend in Ukraine is that technologies about communication are basically changing weekly,” said Väräsi, referring to the combat systems, which are strongly based on stable signals. The feedback from Ukraine means: “We have changed significantly, our design and our products,” he said.
Väärsi said that the company was “very eager”, its systems in Estonia, a country that is once part of the Soviet Union like Ukraine, and a current Russian neighbor who is concerned about the possibility of an attack on its sovereignty.
Estonia is one of the largest defense spending in NATO as part of GDP and one of the countries that sound the alarm the loudest over Russia.
“It is our mission to support Ukraine as much as possible to help them win this war. Even if it is so little as if we are sending our vehicles, we should definitely do it,” said Väärsi.
He said it was also a good business train. “If you look at it from a validation perspective, the equipment that does not justify itself in Ukraine, why should that be necessary?”
Milrem was founded in 2013, and Värärsi said that before this war “many people talked about unmanned soil vehicles in defense,” but there were also “many doubts”.
This war “showed that unmanned soil vehicles have a really important place on the battlefield,” he said.
Learn from Ukraine
Many Western governments want the battlefield technology of their countries in Ukraine so that companies can learn how they are best ready for potential conflicts with Russia – something that could warn many European countries.
It is something that many western defense companies want. Your products can be tested and updated catheted to prove your value and increase sales.
Luke Pollard, the Minister of the Armed Forces in Great Britain, said last month: “If you are a drone company and your kit in Ukraine is not at the forefront, you can just give up.”
Väärsi said that Milrem Robotics has a team that regularly visits Ukraine, hits military units and works directly with the operators who use the company’s equipment. It will soon have a team in Ukraine to “be closer to the Ukrainian armed forces and to support them even better,” he said.
Many companies work closely with soldiers to support the development. A Ukrainian drone operator previously explained BI that he took texts and facepages with drone manufacturers with drone manufacturers with drone manufacturers in order to promote a better iterative design and development process.
Robot of the future
The basic robots are particularly useful on the battlefield, since they can be used to move a lot more weight than the flying drones and often more than humans, fire from positions that are not safe for soldiers from which they can fight and travel closer to Russian positions than any human fighter can safely.
Väärsi said he saw the role of robots “as the first line of defense” and keep the troops safer. This benefits Ukraine that no workers can save.
“They don’t move their troops in front of them, but they move their unmanned systems,” he said.
Väärsi also noticed the Ukraine, which has a rapidly growing defense industry, also a “very capable” floor robot industry.
It is a technology that the West and others look more and more. Germany’s ARX robotics opened the largest production facility in Europe for soil military robots this year, and companies on the entire continent make new models.
Milrem plays a leading role and leads a consortium that developed unmanned soil systems that received 56 million US dollars of funds from the European Defense Fund. Its robots are capable platforms in which Russian researchers actually take up a premium and encourage soldiers to steal one in order to promote Russia’s work in this area.
The other products of the company include larger combat vehicles such as Havoc, which have a payload capacity of 5 tons. It also has a kit for intelligent functions intelligently intelligent, with which the vehicles can move autonomously. It is said that its products are part of robotics programs or in 19 countries, including the USA, Great Britain and Germany.
Ground robots are one of many things that closely observe the international partners of Ukraine when they examine the type of tactics, weapons and so they should continue to apply.
Milrem works with companies that are in Ukraine, and Väärsi encouraged other foreign defense companies to do the same.
“What I think is very important is that we have to learn in Europe and have to learn very seriously what will continue in Ukraine: What works, which does not work, what thinking, which ways must be better equipped if – hopefully this never happens – but if Russia decides to expand their activities in warfare.”
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