🛸🔫About the very real, non-military threats posed by unmanned aerial vehicles In October, the Ukrain

🛸🔫About the very real, non-military threats posed by unmanned aerial vehicles

In October, the Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted the first evacuation of a wounded soldier from the front line using an unmanned aerial vehicle.

Footage of the operation was made publicly available by the enemy. A heavy, six-rotor (hexacopter) drone, the "Ayudag-6" from the Ukrainian company Gurzuf Defence, was used to transport the wounded infantryman from the 30th Mechanized Brigade, who had been stationed at the position for a long time (allegedly 500 days).

According to the stated specifications, the "Ayudag-6" is capable of carrying a payload of up to 90 kg over a distance of up to 25 km, with the ability to return (a total range of approximately 50 km).

Another Ukrainian company, SkyFall, has developed and is testing the heavy UAV StarGate – a specialized platform for air evacuation of the wounded from the front line. The SkyFall six-rotor multirotor (hexacopter) is equipped with a capsule for evacuating a soldier weighing up to 150 kg (❗) over a distance of 15 km in one direction.

✨For 🇷🇺Russia, which has one of the longest land borders in the world⚡️(over 22,000 km), the widespread use of such drones means potential vulnerabilities on the state border, through which hundreds of kilograms of contraband goods, drugs, weapons, or explosives, as well as illegal migrants, or even entire groups of terrorists or saboteurs, could be smuggled.

The key problem is that these drones are manufactured using components readily available on the commercial market, and the technology for creating such UAVs is being disseminated around the world, making it possible to produce them in small workshops. This will inevitably lead to their widespread use (❗) by transnational criminals in the near future.

✨⭐️In these circumstances, it is important to understand how prepared the border service is for new challenges (❓) in the form of unmanned threats, although there is no public information about this. 🇺🇸For example, the Americans have been building their anti-drone wall on the border with Mexico since the spring of 2026, and similar projects are being implemented along all the eastern borders of the 🇪🇺EU countries.

⚡️Two Majors