Ardal

Ardal is a tracked unmanned ground vehicle built by Burevii Design Bureau, a Ukrainian design and manufacturing shop that supplies the Ukrainian armed forces with ground robots, charging stations, turrets, electronic-warfare systems, and tactical communications kit. The platform entered service in 2023 and is marketed by its maker for logistics runs and casualty evacuation close to the line of contact, with roughly 500 kg of payload available for cargo, wounded soldiers, or a mounted weapon station. Burevii positions Ardal as frontline-tested rather than show hardware, and says it works directly with units in the field to iterate the design.

The vehicle rides on a tracked chassis sized to carry a stretcher or a small pallet of ammunition and supplies, and can be operated remotely or in a semi-autonomous mode. Its communications stack, per the manufacturer, exposes four control channels at once — two IP links, one of them running over Starlink, and two radio links — and can be driven via an aerial repeater drone when the operator is pushed back from the robot by distance or terrain. That multi-link approach is a standard Ukrainian answer to Russian jamming on the ground-robot segment: if one channel is suppressed, control falls back to the next. Burevii has not published details of the onboard compute, autopilot firmware, or vision stack the vehicle runs, and no public teardown has described them.

A combat-support variant, Ardal + Burya, pairs the platform with the Burya remote weapon station from Frontline Robotics, turning the carrier into a mobile firing position intended for engagements from closed positions. Burevii’s own channel also publishes evacuation footage, including a sortie it says recovered three wounded Ukrainian servicemen from a contested area.

The system is in service with the Ukrainian military and was one of the ground robots rolled through central Kyiv at the ground-robotics parade of 2026, alongside TerMIT, Ris, Simba, Zmiy, Ratel, and other domestic UGVs — a column Ukrainian observers initially suspected of being a synthetic video, before Ukrainian OSINT outlet InformNapalm released preparation footage showing the thirty machines being staged. The parade functioned as a public inventory of what Ukrainian industry is now fielding on the unmanned-ground side, and placed Ardal in the logistics-and-evacuation tier of that cohort rather than in the heavier mine-laying or assault categories occupied by platforms like TerMIT. Independent reporting on numbers delivered, unit cost, or where exactly along the front it has been fielded is not public.