ARK-1
Ukrainian four-wheel-drive UGV airdropped behind Russian lines carrying anti-tank mines.
ARK-1, a Ukrainian four-wheel-drive UGV carrying anti-tank mines, was airdropped behind Russian lines on 19 July 2026; its manufacturer remains unnamed.
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Who built the mine-carrying robot Russian footage caught behind its own lines?
Timeline for ARK-1
Carried TM-series anti-tank mines behind Russian lines
Autonomous Systems: Land & Sea: Airdropped mine robot named as the ARK-1Background
ARK-1 is a Ukrainian four-wheel-drive UGV tied to the Brave1 defence-tech cluster, first disclosed publicly in June 2024. Carrying TM-series anti-tank mines and rated to 45km/h, it was airdropped by hexacopter behind Russian lines on 19 July 2026; TechRadar and Militarnyi corroborated the delivery independently of the original Russian Telegram footage that first showed it.
No source has named the company that builds it. That gap sits alongside a growing pattern in Ukraine's frontline robotics supply, where a platform's battlefield use and even its name can become public well before its manufacturer does, usually because Brave1-linked firms operate under wartime security constraints rather than normal commercial disclosure.