A Ukrainian army corps said it used aerial and ground drones to lay a minefield roughly a quarter-mile deep, in one of the war’s first large-scale instances of remote mining with uncrewed systems.
The Third Army Corps said on Wednesday that its drones took two nights to deploy the mines, a task that “would take humans about two weeks.”
According to its statement on Telegram, the corps laid about 400 meters, or 1,312 feet, of minefields during that timeframe, as part of a recent offensive in Donetsk called Operation Vivaldi.
Few details are publicly known about the operation, though the Third Army Corps said last week that it seized roughly 50…
