Advancing robotics with VATAG in Ukraine: Weapon of the Week

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00:00One of the main areas of investment that Ukraine is looking to get into is unmanned ground vehicles.

00:04And here to talk a little bit more about that is Anatoly Nikitin with VTAG Unmanned Ground Vehicles.

00:09Thank you so much for joining us today.

00:10Thank you very much, Ryan, to take interest from this.

00:14Yes, we are producing and designing the new step of the unground vehicle,

00:21the heavy unmanned ground vehicle in Ukraine,

00:24because as you can see here in the exhibition, everybody will focus on the smaller ones.

00:28But our main idea was to create the vehicle who can easily replace on the battlefield

00:36the human-operated APCs and the human-operated transportation devices,

00:42because the human is quite more vulnerable than the iron.

00:52So we provide the platform.

00:54They should actually model a quite unique one, because we can easily install it because of their...

01:01Some of them, some of our competition said that it's too big to be heated,

01:07but it's also quite armored itself, and it's also modular and quite flexible.

01:14You can easily place the assault model in there, or maybe the defensive one.

01:20But we are focusing on what we are not showing in this, because it's for exhibition.

01:24Everybody excited about the big guns, like in Texas.

01:27But we are more focusing on the logistic purposes, because the logistic now is the crucial one,

01:34is the crucial part.

01:35I am retired from the 3rd assault brigade, and in January I was on the battlefield

01:40and provided all the military stuff, so for now we are like payload capacity of the two tons,

01:47which are easily moving by the speed of the 47 kilometers per hour off-road.

01:55And that's the main reason we are trying to reduce the human losses on the battlefield.

02:03So we are focusing on this big guy.

02:08So it actually looks like more a rhino or a buffalo.

02:11Where is it manufactured?

02:13We manufacture here, luckily, in Ukraine.

02:15So it's totally Ukrainian, but we are also foreseeing the next step is to have the production somewhere abroad,

02:22because the export is restricted for now because of the world production.

02:26But we understand that we can also be interested for guys in the USA also,

02:33because we are much cheaper than them.

02:36All right. Thank you so much for joining us today. I really appreciate it.

02:38Thank you very much.