Ukrainian ARDAL 920 and MANGAL ground drones become museum exhibits at National War Museum

BUREVII Design Bureau has donated two Ukrainian-developed unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) — ARDAL 920 and MANGAL — to the Museum of War. Both platforms are actively deployed by units of the Ukrainian Defence Forces for logistics, casualty evacuation, and combat operations.

ARDAL 920 is a tracked unmanned ground vehicle with a curb weight of 275 kg. It features a standard payload capacity of up to 150 kg, a maximum payload of 250 kg, and can tow a trailer carrying up to 300 kg. Its operational range under load reaches up to 50 km.

The system is utilised to resupply ammunition and equipment, conduct casualty evacuation, and execute frontline logistics. If required, the platform can be fitted with a remotely operated weapon station (ROWS).

In April 2025, ARDAL 920 executed the first-ever evacuation of three wounded Ukrainian servicemen via an unmanned ground vehicle. The platform navigated 17 km under heavy artillery fire and drone strikes, with the entire mission spanning a week.

MANGAL is a compact 4×4 all-wheel-drive wheeled UGV weighing 64 kg. It reaches speeds of up to 30 km/h, features an operational range of up to 30 km, and provides a control link range of up to 6.5 km in line-of-sight conditions. Its modular architecture allows it to be configured with either a cargo module or a communications relay module featuring a Starlink terminal. The variant donated to the museum is configured for remote mining and strike missions as a ground kamikaze drone.

The developer emphasises that both platforms were engineered based on direct combat experience: every executed mission and operator debrief directly informed iterative design improvements.