djvu The Drone Bible Book 3: Ground Vehicles Data Cards

A $12,000 cart hauls ammunition across ground that was killing the men who walked it. A $3 million American program was canceled because the arithmetic could never come right.

By the summer of 2026, most Ukrainian frontline logistics was moving on unmanned ground vehicles. Three years earlier that figure was close to zero. THE DRONE BIBLE, VOLUME 3 documents the machines that made that shift, one platform at a time.

Fifty-three data cards covering the land domain:
• Commercial and industrial robots — quadrupeds, sidewalk delivery vehicles, firefighting platforms, and a machine that repairs live gas mains beneath a city• Ukrainian logistics and casualty-evacuation vehicles built in workshops that did not exist three years ago•

Armed and one-way attack ground platforms• Russian systems — including what their near-total absence from the photographic record actually tells you• Western programs from Milrem, Rheinmetall, QinetiQ, General Dynamics, Oshkosh and Nexter, measured in millions per vehicle

Each card carries full specifications, propulsion and performance, operational history, manufacturing philosophy, and a countermeasure vulnerability profile that rates the platform independently against visual, acoustic and thermal detection, RF jamming, GPS spoofing and denial, EMI/EMC attack, microwave and laser directed energy, kinetic attack, mine strike, cyber, and supply-chain interdiction.
Disputed figures are flagged rather than smoothed over. Where a claim could not be substantiated, it is marked or left out.
Three closing chapters take the argument past the cards.

WHAT YOU ARE UP AGAINST — the electromagnetic battlefield as it applies to ground vehicles. Why composite hulls that reduce radar signature also remove the shielding steel provided for free. Why defeating the control link does not defeat the weapon. And why an anti-tank mine designed decades before these vehicles existed, refitted with a fuze that counts iron instead of weight, is now the most effective weapon against them.

PATTERNS ACROSS PLATFORMS — what emerges only when the cards are read against one another. Wheels beating tracks for reasons that have nothing to do with mobility. One chassis appearing in five national programs under five different names. Ground robots reaching their objective by boat and by heavy-lift drone. And the operators who standardized their own electronics because nobody upstream would.
THE COUNTER-UGV GAP — the systems nobody has built. This volume catalogs roughly fifty ground platforms and no system designed to stop them. Counter-UGV in 2026 sits almost exactly where counter-UAS sat in 2022, and this chapter states what the first fielded answer will look like, with a date on the prediction so it can be scored later.
Written by Peter Brusso — seventeen patents and four decades of engineering on the BGM-109 Tomahawk, the Advanced Cruise Missile, and electromagnetic hardening across multiple defense programs. Engineer's Notes throughout give the assessment behind the specifications, marked as opinion and separated from the sourced data.
Illustrated with verifiedline art rather than manufacturer photography, so the geometry an engineer needs is visible and the marketing is not.

Companion to THE DRONE BIBLE: Foundations, Frameworks & Countermeasure Theory and to Volume 2: Air Vehicles Data Cards. Free companion data cards for platforms fielded after publication are available on Archive.org.
What it costs. What it does. What kills it.