Russia Delivers Depesha Ground Drones to Army

10 January, 2025 Medical modification of the Russian Depesha ground robotic system, 2024 The Russian defense holding company Vysokopotrechnye Komplexy has delivered a batch of Depesha ground robotic systems to the army. The press service of the Russian state corporation Rostec reported on this.

The version and number of the delivered units of the multipurpose platform are not disclosed. However, it is known that these systems have already been used by the occupiers in the war against Ukraine as ground kamikaze drones. The Depesha drone was developed by the Russian research institute Signal and was first presented last year at the Army-2024 defense forum.

The platform is based on a four-wheel drive wheeled chassis and can carry out logistics missions, evacuate the wounded, act as an attack drone with a combat module, or carry other payloads weighing up to 200 kilograms. During last year's debut, the developers presented an ambulance version with a stretcher for the wounded, as well as a sapper complex with the launchers of engineered ammunition for remote mining.