A serviceman with the call sign "Tankist" was injured after being dropped from a drone. To save him, an operation was carried out to transport an electric bicycle directly to his position.
A serviceman with the call sign "Tankist" was injured after being dropped from a drone. To save him, an operation was carried out to transport an electric bicycle directly to his position.
During the personnel rotation in the Siversky direction, the "Tankist", together with four other comrades, entered into battle with the Russian occupiers. Unfortunately, two servicemen died from the drone's fall, the third from being hit by an FPV. Wounded in the leg, the "Tankist" remained alone in the encirclement and for five days repelled the enemy's assaults. During this time, he eliminated from 8 to 12 occupiers.
The 4th Battalion "Force of Freedom" of the NGU, which had been covering the "Tankist" from above all the time, sent a "Heavy shot" drone with a payload in the form of an electric bicycle to save the soldier. There were several attempts to deliver the electric bicycle, during the first one the enemy managed to shoot down one of the drones along with the rescue vehicle, on the second time the electric motors burned out and the drone fell before reaching the evacuation point. On the third time, the pilots still managed to deliver the 42 kg electric bicycle to the place of deployment of the "Tankist".
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Even when the soldier received the bicycle, the evacuation had only just begun. While the soldier was dealing with the bicycle, drone operators were dropping bombs on the enemy and also laying down a smoke screen to cover the operation's maneuvers.
The "Tankist" had to ride through a broken mined area under constant small arms fire. Despite maximum caution and speed, the bike still hit a mine, as a result of which the fork of the bike broke, but fortunately the "Tankist" remained alive and was able to reach the positions of the Defense Forces on foot. In total, the extreme ride lasted 15 minutes.
