TerMIT

TerMIT is a tracked unmanned ground vehicle built by Tencore , a Ukrainian manufacturer that began serial production of the platform in 2024 to meet front-line demand from Ukrainian brigades. It belongs to the wave of small, expendable battlefield robots that emerged from the war with Russia, designed to do the jobs that get soldiers killed: hauling ammunition forward across exposed ground, evacuating wounded out of contact, dragging mines, and carrying explosive payloads onto Russian positions. The vehicle is roughly the size of a large garden tractor and crawls on rubberised tracks, low and squat enough to push through scrub and shell craters that wheels cannot cross.

The system runs on an electric drivetrain powered by swappable battery packs, which gives it a quiet acoustic signature compared with petrol-driven competitors and lets crews change power in the field rather than refuel under fire. Tencore quotes a payload of around 200 kilograms and a control range on the order of 20 kilometres when the operator works through a relay or repeater, although line-of-sight operation over the standard radio link is shorter. The chassis is deliberately modular: the same hull accepts a stretcher cradle for casualty evacuation, an open cargo bed for resupply runs, a remote weapon station for fire support variants, and a demolition fitting for one-way kamikaze missions. Operators drive it from a ruggedised tablet or controller, with a forward-looking camera streaming back over the same data link.

Ukraine is the primary and effectively the only operator. TerMIT has been delivered to multiple brigades across the line of contact, including units in the Donetsk and Kharkiv directions, where it has been documented in Ukrainian military channels evacuating wounded soldiers and shuttling shells, water, and food into trench positions that drones cannot adequately resupply. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence codified the platform in late 2024, clearing it for procurement under domestic contracts, and it has since been one of several Ukrainian-made UGVs scaled up under the country’s “Brave1” defence-tech cluster. Public combat footage shows it operating under FPV drone threat with metal cope cages bolted to the deck.

Tencore continues to iterate the design alongside competing Ukrainian UGVs such as the Ratel S and the THeMIS-class systems supplied by Estonia’s Milrem Robotics . TerMIT’s distinguishing feature in that crowd is its emphasis on the medical-evacuation mission, where crews have used it to recover casualties from positions otherwise written off as unreachable — a quietly important capability in a war where the road to the wounded is often the deadliest stretch of ground a soldier walks.