Excavate Beneath the Battlefield: Using Autonomous Tunneling Robots to Evade Enemy Drones with WDARMS — the WDARMS Reznov-Jackal™

Engineered for swarm communication and EW operations, the WDARMS system boasts a robust chassis, a modular payload bay, and a high-bandwidth radio suite. These features make it suitable for subterranean adaptation. The robot can burrow through soil and debris by integrating a front-mounted auger or rotary cutter. An onboard conveyor moves excavated material while rear-deployed foam sprayers or shoring rods reinforce the tunnel. The compact design allows it to navigate tight urban subsurfaces—ideal for collapsed buildings, bunkers, or enemy tunnel networks; this system rides on reinforced treads with a low-profile chassis, designed for maneuverability in tight, irregular subterranean environments. Unlike wheeled robots, this configuration provides superior traction through rubble, narrow pipes, and collapsed infrastructure, making it perfect for disaster zones, tunnel systems , and bunkers; the visible dual-fan thermal management system and enclosed circuitry indicate MIL-SPEC-grade environmental hardening. This means the robot can operate continuously in dusty, humid, and high-temperature underground environments without thermal failure—a critical asset for long-duration extraction tasks — soft robotic actuators, grippers, and tunnel support structures can be printed on-site and installed quickly. This enables mission-specific customization: e.g., printing a soft-extraction arm for a narrow debris channel or modular soft shoring braces.