Robots and drones help sappers to demine
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine demonstrated special equipment used by sappers to demine settlements liberated from the Russian occupiers. In the published photos you can see a quadcopter and a manipulator, which help sappers to do their job, taking the maximum precautions to clear mines and explosive traps left by the occupiers.
Quadcopters are useful for demining because they allow you to safely explore the area for the presence of stretch marks (fixed low above the ground hand grenades with taut wire tied to the check, detonated by touching the wire with his foot). “I would like to note that small mobile quadcopters with video recording function are especially effective, which are still indispensable for every sapper unit and reconnaissance,” said Igor, the head of the demining team.
The use of crawler-powered robots equipped with cameras and manipulators with enthusiasm allows you to remotely inspect explosive objects. Such work can be carried out by a sapper both independently and in pairs with a specialist who has undergone appropriate training. robotic system Nicholas.
Chronicle of demining of Ukraine
The State Emergency Service has created an interactive map of demining of Ukraine with places of certain explosive objects and dangerous areas. The map shows the dynamics of demining work in the regions of the country: the number of departures, the area of demined areas and the number of neutralized explosive devices. As of this publication, there was information on 31,722 disposed items, including 569 bombs. Most of the work was carried out in Kyiv region, where 6,950 kilometers of roads and an area with a total area of 1,349 hectares were surveyed. In the Kyiv region, 99 people are working with 35 units of equipment. According to the head of the department of organization of pyrotechnic works and humanitarian demining of the SES Oleg Bondar, “about 300 thousand square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine needs humanitarian demining due to the large amount of ammunition left by the occupiers.”
