Severely wounded soldier evacuated from front line by StarGate drone: fellow soldier dragged him to UAV. VIDEO
Soldiers from the 475th Separate Assault Regiment CODE 9.2 evacuated a wounded serviceman from the front line using a StarGate aerial drone. This was the sixth such operation.
The press service of Ukrainian drone manufacturer SkyFall told Militarnyi and Oboronka, Censor.NET reports.
What is known about the operation
The rescued soldier, named Serhii, sustained arm and leg wounds in a Russian FPV drone strike. His injuries prevented him from moving independently, so a decision was made to evacuate him by air.
"Difficult terrain, minefields, shelling and systematic attacks by Russian troops made ground evacuation of the wounded soldier impossible," the manufacturer’s press service explained.
The video shows a fellow soldier dragging Serhii to the evacuation drone. The wounded soldier was successfully transported to a stabilisation point and is now undergoing treatment.
Video description
The approximately 58-second video was filmed mostly with a thermal imaging camera, producing black-and-white footage with bright areas indicating heat. SkyFall and unit logos appear in the corner. The footage shows two soldiers at night: one drags the other along the ground towards a drone. Explanatory captions read: "Sixth evacuation of a wounded soldier by StarGate drone", "A soldier uses all his strength to drag his severely wounded comrade to the drone", "So he can be flown to a stabilisation point", "Serhii is a soldier in an assault regiment", "His injuries prevented him from moving independently", "SkyFall developed the StarGate drone to evacuate wounded personnel by air from positions inaccessible to ground evacuation", "The evacuation was carried out by troops from the 475th Assault Regiment CODE 9.2". A separate shot shows the small multirotor drone against the sky.
According to the company, six Ukrainian servicemen have now been evacuated using the StarGate drone.
More about the StarGate drone
- According to its developer, StarGate is Ukraine’s first specialised unmanned aerial platform for battlefield casualty evacuation (CASEVAC).
- It was developed at the military’s request for situations in which ground transport cannot reach a wounded soldier or doing so is too dangerous. The drone can carry up to 150 kilograms and reach speeds of up to 105 km/h.
- The evacuation module is equipped with a medical stretcher. According to the developers, onboard AI, navigation, and communications redundancy systems allow the mission to continue even under GPS jamming and loss of communications.
As previously reported, the Ukrainian army carried out the first-ever evacuation of a wounded soldier from the front line using an aerial drone.
