Robots make combat airdrops, clear mines as Ukraine defeats Russian pincer
Robots make combat airdrops, clear mines as Ukraine defeats Russian pincer
机器人执行空投作战并清除地雷，乌克兰成功击溃俄军钳形攻势
Ukraine’s military robots are dropping from heavy drones in airborne assaults behind Russian lines as other robots clear mines ahead of advancing Ukrainian infantry. The wheeled ground robots are supporting Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi counterattack that has crushed a Russian military pincer movement and liberated dozens of square miles of occupied Ukrainian territory so far.
乌克兰的军用机器人正通过重型无人机空投至俄军防线后方执行突袭任务，与此同时，其他机器人也在乌军步兵推进前方负责扫雷。这些轮式地面机器人正在支援乌克兰的“维瓦尔第行动”（Operation Vivaldi）反攻，该行动目前已粉碎了俄军的钳形攻势，并收复了数十平方英里的乌克兰被占领土。
The Ukrainian Third Army Corps revealed a “world-first” airborne assault involving robots and drones that took place within Russian-held territory on September 21, 2026, according to the Ukrainian government media platform United24. Heavy bomber drones air-dropped explosive ground robots more than six miles behind Russian frontlines, helping the robots bypass tough terrain and enemy defenses to attack supply lines in the rear.
据乌克兰政府媒体平台 United24 报道，乌克兰第三军团披露了一场于 2026 年 9 月 21 日发生在俄控区内的“全球首例”机器人与无人机协同空降突袭。重型轰炸无人机将携带爆炸物的地面机器人空投至俄军前线后方六英里多处，帮助机器人绕过复杂地形和敌方防御，从而打击后方补给线。
This is not the first time that Ukraine has used heavy drones to deliver robots closer to their intended targets. But the incident is reportedly the most ambitious robotic airborne assault to date. Several days later, the Ukrainian defense media outlet Militarnyi reported that the Third Army Corps had separately used more ground robots to safely clear antipersonnel mines from more than 18 miles of routes, paving the way for Ukrainian infantry assaults.
这并非乌克兰首次利用重型无人机将机器人运送至目标附近，但据报道，此次行动是迄今为止规模最宏大的机器人空降突袭。几天后，乌克兰国防媒体 Militarnyi 报道称，第三军团还另外使用了更多地面机器人，安全清除了超过 18 英里路线上的杀伤性地雷，为乌军步兵的进攻铺平了道路。
The same task would have typically required two sapper companies—but in this case, the robots took care of it all on their own without putting human lives at risk. Such remote-controlled robots and their human operators already take care of about 60 percent of mines in the Third Army Corps’ area of operations, according to Militarnyi and follow-up coverage by United24.
同样的任务在以往通常需要两个工兵连才能完成，但在这次行动中，机器人独立完成了所有工作，且未让人员生命面临风险。据 Militarnyi 及 United24 的后续报道，这类遥控机器人及其操作员目前已承担了第三军团作战区域内约 60% 的扫雷工作。
The Ukrainian military has been significantly ramping up the use of ground robots to compensate for its manpower disadvantage against the Russian military. With the persistent threat of drone attacks near the front lines, robots are taking on increasingly risky duties such as doing supply runs or evacuating wounded soldiers. Ukraine’s military robots are also taking on combat duties such as defending against Russian attacks with machine guns or making explosive kamikaze assaults on Russian positions.
乌克兰军队一直在大幅增加地面机器人的使用，以弥补其在对阵俄军时的人力劣势。随着前线附近无人机袭击威胁的持续存在，机器人正承担起诸如补给运输或撤离伤员等日益危险的任务。乌克兰的军用机器人也开始执行战斗任务，例如使用机枪防御俄军进攻，或对俄军阵地发动自杀式爆炸袭击。
The latest battlefield uses of such robots have helped the Ukrainian military’s Operation Vivaldi reclaim up to 96 square miles of territory. Operation Vivaldi has also defeated Russian forces that were the northern part of a pincer movement attempting to encircle Ukraine’s “Fortress Belt” cities in eastern Ukraine, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a think tank based in Washington, DC.
这些机器人近期的战场应用已帮助乌军的“维瓦尔第行动”收复了多达 96 平方英里的领土。据华盛顿智库战争研究所（ISW）称，“维瓦尔第行动”还击败了俄军钳形攻势的北翼部队，该部队此前试图包围乌克兰东部的“堡垒地带”城市。
Vivaldi’s success and the fall season: Since launching in May 2026, the Ukrainian Third Army Corps operation has practiced strict operational security that has kept successful advances under wraps for a long time. That has helped mislead Russian leaders, whose operational awareness is also hindered by what the ISW described as a “pervasive culture of lying within the Russian military” about the real battlefield situation when things aren’t going well for Russia.
“维瓦尔第行动”的成功与秋季攻势：自 2026 年 5 月启动以来，乌克兰第三军团一直保持严格的作战保密，使得成功的推进长期未被外界察觉。这有助于误导俄方领导层，而俄方对战场态势的感知也因 ISW 所描述的“俄军内部普遍存在的谎报文化”而受阻——即在战况不利时隐瞒真实情况。
Operation Vivaldi’s success has also been enabled by Ukraine’s intermediate-range drone strike campaign targeting Russian fuel supplies, which has reduced the availability of diesel fuel for generators powering Russian electronic warfare systems. At the same time, Ukraine’s own electronic warfare systems reportedly neutralized about 20,000 Russian drones. Together, such factors have helped Ukraine achieve “tactical drone overmatch” while supporting Ukrainian mechanized advances toward Lyman in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, according to the ISW assessment.
“维瓦尔第行动”的成功还得益于乌克兰针对俄军燃料补给的中程无人机打击行动，这减少了俄军电子战系统发电机所需的柴油供应。与此同时，据报道，乌克兰自身的电子战系统已成功压制了约 2 万架俄罗斯无人机。据 ISW 评估，这些因素共同帮助乌克兰实现了“战术无人机优势”，并支持了乌军向顿涅茨克州利曼方向的机械化推进。
Members of Russia’s elite drone unit, called Rubicon, were withdrawn from the region after the Ukrainian Third Army Corps inflicted losses on the Russian drone pilots and the unit’s resources, according to The Kyiv Independent. But the Russian military is still directing armored vehicles and drone units such as Rubicon toward Dobropillya in the Donetsk Oblast in preparation for future mechanized assaults this autumn.
据《基辅独立报》报道，在乌克兰第三军团对俄军无人机飞行员及该部队资源造成损失后，俄罗斯精锐无人机部队“卢比孔”（Rubicon）的成员已从该地区撤出。但俄军目前仍在将装甲车辆和“卢比孔”等无人机部队调往顿涅茨克州的多布罗皮利亚（Dobropillya），为今年秋季的后续机械化进攻做准备。
During the summer, the Russian military tested a new anti-drone protection system for its most modern tanks that saw limited success—although Ukrainian drones still overwhelmed the tanks’ defenses. The Russian military has also adapted many of the same drone warfare innovations used by Ukraine while sometimes developing its own as it continues attacking Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones. Russia has also stepped up a campaign of “hybrid warfare” against Europe, with recent examples including an explosive drone boat turning up near a vital offshore gas site and an attempt to attack parked Ukrainian cargo aircraft with a drone at Leipzig Airport in Germany.
今年夏天，俄军为其最先进的坦克测试了一种新型反无人机防护系统，但效果有限——乌军无人机依然能够突破这些坦克的防御。俄军在继续利用导弹和无人机袭击乌克兰城市的同时，也采纳了许多乌克兰使用的无人机作战创新，并有时会开发自己的技术。俄罗斯还加强了针对欧洲的“混合战争”攻势，近期的例子包括在重要的海上天然气设施附近发现爆炸性无人艇，以及在德国莱比锡机场试图用无人机袭击停放的乌克兰货机。