The War In Ukraine: Romanian Hospitality

 

 

Picture: Allan C. Green

 

An Independent Navy For An Independent Nation does not exist at present,but if it did Her Majesty's Hospitalling Ship Hamadryad could now be in Romanian waters using her helicopters,lighters and ambulances to establish casualty receiving stations on the Ukrainian border,and to transport serious casualties back to the ship.

 

The War In Ukraine: The Eye Of The Beholder

 

Picture: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

 

During the current unpleasantness the Ukrainian armed forces claim to have killed sixteen thousand and one hundred Russian soldiers and to have destroyed sixteen hundred and twenty-five Russian light Armoured Personnel Vehicles and five hundred and sixty-one Russian medium tanks,to a transformationalist this means that heavy Main Battle Tanks are obsolete and that infantry and light Armoured Personnel Vehicles are the future.

 

The Transformational Killer Robot

 

 

Picture: Unknown photographer,International Automated Systems photograph

 

As we pointed out over a decade ago,"armed forces have a habit of making the simple and cheap expensive and complicated",the four wheel drive variant of the Ox vehicle proposed herein,which shall be similar in size to some motorised quadcycles,shall be able to transport a driver and a medical attendant in addition to three recumbent casualties,seven if towing it's standard trailer (other potential payloads shall include ten infantrymen in patrol order or a,battalion level,Four Inch Mortar with it's crew and ammunition),at speeds of up to fifty miles per hour and is likely to cost as much as similar civilian vehicles,around fifteen thousand pounds sterling per unit.

 

 

Picture: Unknown photographer,unknown copyright

 

Two Milrem THeMIS (sic) and three HORIBA MIRA VIKING Unmanned Ground Vehicles were recently purchased by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory for five million pounds,for which several hundred Oxen and trailers could have been purchased,each THeMIS vehicle carries just two recumbent casualties at one quarter the speed of the Ox and shall take four times as long to get them to life saving medical assistance and require fourteen vehicles to match the casualty evacuation rate of just one Ox and trailer,thereby exposing British soldiers to the risk of a slow and painful death at the hands of their own,transformational,killer robots.