Robot Mine Sweepers and Kamikaze Drones: The ROK Army Reveals the Future of Combat / KBS 10/15/2026

South Korea's army has pulled back the curtain on a genuinely terrifying vision of the future battlefield. Filmed at the Army's integrated 'Army TIGER Plus' combat training at a Yangpyeong training field, this report shows reconnaissance drones pouring out of a truck container toward enemy lines, a VTOL fixed-wing drone weaving a quantum-secured communications network overhead, and kamikaze drones swarming in - only to be shredded by combat-vehicle machine guns before four-legged robots and multi-purpose unmanned vehicles lead troops straight through minefields. Even the vaunted K2 tank now runs with steel defensive cages, borrowing painful lessons from the war in Ukraine. As Major General Lee Kyung-jin puts it, warfare is shifting from manned systems to unmanned ones, with AI and robots organically linked to keep soldiers alive. By: KBS News, published on October 15, 2026.