{"id":34511,"date":"2024-08-04T10:49:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T09:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?post_type=unit&p=34511"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:31:00","slug":"422-battalion-of-unmanned-systems","status":"publish","type":"unit","link":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/ukraine\/armed-forces\/422-battalion-of-unmanned-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"422-\u0439 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043a \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043f\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0442\u043d\u0438\u0445 \u0441\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043c"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3055,"featured_media":55260,"parent":11750,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"unit_tag":[],"class_list":["post-34511","unit","type-unit","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/485613182_122119932230787337_6855768298725956458_n.jpg",960,590,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"FIsken","author_link":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/author\/fisken\/"},"comment_info":"","related_losses":false,"related_posts":[{"ID":55212,"post_title":"New units of the 17th Army Corps appears","post_content":"\n

Just yesterday, we reported<\/a> on the official unveiling of two mechanized brigades and one mountain brigade under the 17th Army Corps (17-\u0439 \u0430\u0440\u043c\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u0440\u043f\u0443\u0441). Today, two more units have been revealed\u2014this time, somewhat unexpectedly, they are both Territorial Defense brigades: the 108th and 241st Territorial Defense Brigades. The information has been published through the official channels<\/a> of 17th Army Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both brigades are currently deployed in Zaporizhia Oblast, alongside the previously announced brigades of the 17th Army Corps. It remains unclear whether these units will eventually be transferred to the Ground Forces or if they are temporarily attached until the corps\u2019 structure is fully established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to our sources, the 422nd Battalion of Unmanned Systems, known as \"Luftwaffe,\" has also been assigned to the 17th Army Corps. The unit is currently operating in the same area.<\/p>\n","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2025-07-05 22:22:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-05 20:22:42","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"new-units-of-the-17th-army-corps-appears","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-09 22:43:12","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-09 20:43:12","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=55212","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"6","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15436","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Zhorik Vartanov","comment_author_email":"a@b.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"82.118.29.135","comment_date":"2025-07-06 16:28:49","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-06 14:28:49","comment_content":"I'd surmise it's a historical reference to the early Gothic tribes - the first Ukrainians - who were renowned for painting Schwarzkreuze on their legendary flying ponies","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/140.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15431","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15436"},{"comment_ID":"15435","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Fury","comment_author_email":"lyubomir.riback@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"93.170.117.38","comment_date":"2025-07-06 14:58:10","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-06 12:58:10","comment_content":"Apparently, it was not the 422nd but the 411th Unmanned Systems Regiment that joined the corps.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/138.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15435"},{"comment_ID":"15434","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Fury","comment_author_email":"lyubomir.riback@gmail.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"93.170.117.38","comment_date":"2025-07-06 14:49:18","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-06 12:49:18","comment_content":"The unit's logo and name echo the modern German Air Force. Quote from the unit commander. \"The creation of the unit's name happened at a time when we dreamed of Germany being more actively involved in helping Ukraine. Part of it was trolling, not the russians, but Germany.\" P.S. Administration please ban this russian bot.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/138.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15433","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15434"},{"comment_ID":"15433","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.100.168","comment_date":"2025-07-06 12:05:51","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-06 10:05:51","comment_content":"No one will openly admit they chose names to evoke WWII Germany. But calling a drone unit Luftwaffe, an elite force Edelweiss or Nachtigall, and using Iron Cross-inspired insignia is deliberate historical referencing - hidden behind plausible deniability but designed to influence subconsciously.","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/138.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15432","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15433"},{"comment_ID":"15432","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Miles_Ignigena","comment_author_email":"Miles_Ignigena@web.de","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a04:4540:6b19:8f00:7dc8:8418:862d:f700","comment_date":"2025-07-06 00:06:41","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-05 22:06:41","comment_content":"Well, Luftwaffe is just the german term for Air Force and is used by the modern day german Air Force too. The emblem is the modern day stylised Iron Cross as it is used by the Bundeswehr. So all modern day.\r\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_Air_Force\r\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iron_Cross#\/media\/File:Bundeswehr_Kreuz.svg","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/140.0","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"15431","user_id":"3040","pod_item_id":"15432"},{"comment_ID":"15431","comment_post_ID":"55212","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"92.184.100.110","comment_date":"2025-07-05 23:48:22","comment_date_gmt":"2025-07-05 21:48:22","comment_content":"According to our sources, the 422nd Battalion of Unmanned Systems, known as \u201cLuftwaffe,\u201d has also been assigned to the 17th Army Corps. <\/span>\r\nN<\/span>o, it\u2019s not a World War II throwback. Just a quirky name, promise!","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/138.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15431"}],"_thumbnail_id":["55251","1","2025-07-05 22:21:59","2025-07-05 20:21:59","","news_17corps_2","","inherit","open","closed","","news_17corps_2","","","2025-07-05 22:21:59","2025-07-05 20:21:59","","55212","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/news_17corps_2.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","55251"],"category":[{"term_id":"3","name":"\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0438","slug":"news","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"3","taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":"0","count":"1057","object_id":"83442","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"3"},{"term_id":"4","name":"\u041e\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0456","slug":"units","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"4","taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":"0","count":"384","object_id":"83442","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"4"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":"1142","name":"\u0410\u0440\u043c\u0456\u044f","slug":"army","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1142","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"296","object_id":"82851","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1142"}],"post_format":false,"id":55212},{"ID":76646,"post_title":"Luftwaffe Unmanned Systems Unit Expanded to Regiment","post_content":"\n

The 422nd Battalion of Unmanned Systems \"Luftwaffe\" has been expanded into a regiment, and is now known as 422nd Regiment of Unammaned Systems \"Luftwaffe.\" This was revealed<\/a> by the official social accounts of the unit. The regiment is part of the Ukrainian 17th Army Corps<\/a>, which is deployed to the Zaporizhzhia axis in the south-eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the unit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

422nd Regiment began its combat journey from unit defense volunteer a territorial to the unmanned systems battalion of the 129th Territorial Defense Brigade<\/a>. The fighters participated in combat operations in the Mykolaiv, Kherson, Avdiivka, Sumy, and Zaporizhia directions. Most of the \"Luftwaffe\" are civilians who had neither experience in aerial reconnaissance nor military service behind their shoulders.<\/p>\n","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2026-01-17 20:36:23","post_date_gmt":"2026-01-17 19:36:23","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"luftwaffe-drone-unit-expands-to-regiment","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-01-17 20:37:08","post_modified_gmt":"2026-01-17 19:37:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=76646","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"1","comments":[{"comment_ID":"15813","comment_post_ID":"76646","comment_author":"Patrick","comment_author_email":"patrickrobert1389@aol.com","comment_author_url":"","comment_author_IP":"2a01:cb15:590:1f00:11af:7c9b:896b:552a","comment_date":"2026-01-19 20:06:14","comment_date_gmt":"2026-01-19 19:06:14","comment_content":"Yesterday, Ukrainian media published an interview with Syrsky who said the Ukrainian army plans offensive operations in 2026 to halt the Russian advance. This promises to be interesting!","comment_karma":"0","comment_approved":"1","comment_agent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/143.0.0.0 Safari\/537.36","comment_type":"comment","comment_parent":"0","user_id":"0","pod_item_id":"15813"}],"_thumbnail_id":["76647","1","2026-01-17 20:34:50","2026-01-17 19:34:50","","news_luftwaffe","","inherit","open","closed","","news_luftwaffe","","","2026-01-17 20:34:50","2026-01-17 19:34:50","","76646","https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/news_luftwaffe.webp","0","attachment","image\/webp","0","76647"],"category":[{"term_id":"3","name":"\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0438","slug":"news","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"3","taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":"0","count":"1057","object_id":"83442","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"3"},{"term_id":"4","name":"\u041e\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0456","slug":"units","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"4","taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":"0","count":"384","object_id":"83442","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"4"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":"1172","name":"\u0431\u0435\u0437\u043f\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0442\u043d\u0438\u043a","slug":"drone","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1172","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"2","object_id":"76646","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1172"},{"term_id":"1162","name":"\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0448\u0438\u0440\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f","slug":"expansion","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1162","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"9","object_id":"77891","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1162"},{"term_id":"1143","name":"\u0421\u0443\u0445\u043e\u043f\u0443\u0442\u043d\u0456 \u0432\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430","slug":"ground-forces","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1143","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"61","object_id":"82851","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1143"},{"term_id":"1157","name":"\u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0430","slug":"ukraine","term_group":"0","term_taxonomy_id":"1157","taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":"0","count":"100","object_id":"82851","term_order":"0","pod_item_id":"1157"}],"post_format":false,"id":76646}],"unit_equipment_previous":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/34511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/unit"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/34511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76498,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/34511\/revisions\/76498"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit\/11750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"unit_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit_tag?post=34511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}