Focus in the war of attrition on the eastern front turns to use of UGV or uncrewed ground vehicles, ironically because the successful deployment of aerial drones has rendered walking around on the battlefield a life-shortening occupation.
Thus vehicles like Tencore's Termit are being used occasionally to rescue casualties, but moreso to sustain supply lines (Ed. we used to use donkeys for that, but now they're all in government).
During a week in which a defence executive in the US has suggested the UK will run out of arms unless it makes a good deal greater use of autonomous drones, focus is on 'attritable' types of the kind Europe has no real experience of, having planned on no war at all or else the previous one these past few decades*.
The attrition rate? Vehicles like the Termit are expected to last just two missions on average, with units on the battlefield suggesting that of every three launched in one or other operation, just one could be expected to survive... the others falling victim to either landmines or drone attacks of the sort previously directed at tanks or troop carriers.
Think Legoland, but without the ice-cream.
The cost of equivalent vehicles produced by heavily-subsidised military-industrial players in Europe varies from anything between ten and a hundred times more expensive, depending on whether you saw the Middle Eastern oil money coming.
