Relevance of unmanned recovery platforms for military medical units

BACKGROUND: Rapid changes in the nature of modern military conflicts and advanced technologies have a significant impact on combat tactics and medical evacuation. In the context of high-tech warfare with the predominant use of automated and robotic equipment, conventional methods of evacuating the injured are becoming increasingly unsafe and less effective. Recent local conflicts have identified the need to implement innovative solutions, such as unmanned evacuation platforms, which can significantly increase the efficiency and safety of medical evacuation, speed up the delivery of the injured, and mitigate the risk to the lives of both medical personnel and the injured under active hostile fire. Each new warfare generation will require military personnel to have a new level of training and advanced technologies, which makes it relevant to study and use unmanned recovery platforms in the training and best practices of units. The use of robotic equipment to evacuate the injured meets the requirements of modern combat and helps to increase the overall survivability of personnel, which is a critical factor in war. Thus, the development and integration of unmanned recovery platforms in the unit training is relevant both for reducing human losses and increasing the performance of combat missions in contemporary conditions. AIM: To substantiate approaches to teaching safe methods of evacuating the injured on the combat contact line. METHODS: The paper presents the literature data analysis and expert survey of military personnel. RESULTS: 100% of respondents that unmanned recovery platforms are relevant and effective evacuation equipment, allowing to neutralize the impact of threatening factors. CONCLUSIONS: The relevance of unmanned recovery platforms to solve medical evacuation problems is increasing due to the development of enemy fire suppression equipment, including unmanned aerial vehicles, as evidenced by video footage of combat operations in public online sources and expert surveys.