乌克兰前所未有的无人机救援战场伤员的行动，再次表明战场需求能够推动创新。该行动在几天后揭晓，此前专为伤员撤离设计的乌克兰无人机已部署到前线进行测试——这一步超越了美国军方数十年来对类似概念的实验。
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.
据《基辅独立报》报道，该伤员的无人机撤离行动发生在前线一个未公开的时间和地点，当时该地区存在俄罗斯无人机和地雷，使得派遣轮式地面机器人不切实际。10月19日，乌克兰陆军发布了一段无人机撤离视频，画面显示，伤员将自己固定在悬挂于六旋翼重型无人机下方的安全带中，随后被飞往安全地带。
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.
“这是一个历史性事件，是伤员撤离的下一个阶段，我们都将迎来这一阶段，”乌克兰第92独立突击旅无人地面系统连的程序员纳帕姆（Napalm）在一份声明中表示，他按照乌克兰军方惯例使用代号。“现在，认真的系统性工作开始了，以便此类任务能够持续开展。”
“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.”