Overview
- Commander Mykola “Makar” Zinkevych said the DevDroid TW 12.7 delivered continuous defensive fire that stabilized a sector for about six weeks.
- The lawn‑mower‑sized platform mounts an M2 Browning .50‑caliber machine gun and can be remotely operated from roughly 24 kilometers with AI‑assisted navigation.
- Operators pulled the vehicle back every two days for about four hours of maintenance, rearming, and battery charging at positions around 3.86 kilometers behind the front.
- The unit reports the robot replaced three to six soldiers at those positions, was never hit, and was not detected by Russian forces.
- Ukraine has cleared additional UGV variants, including grenade‑launcher models, as the General Staff reports heavy fighting in the east with 180 Russian attacks and 1,370 Russian casualties since Thursday morning.