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Milipol 2025: Canada’s INKAS Unveils Combat-Proven HEEMAR UGV For Frontline Logistics And Support.
Canadian firm INKAS Aerospace & Defense unveiled its combat‑proven HEEMAR unmanned ground vehicle at Milipol Paris 2025, promoting it as a solution for frontline logistics, casualty evacuation, and high‑risk support. The debut highlights how Ukraine’s robot‑heavy battlefield is influencing Western approaches to unmanned resupply and homeland security.
During Milipol 2025, Canadian company INKAS Aerospace & Defense unveiled its HEEMAR unmanned ground vehicle to an international audience of security and defense professionals. The system arrives in Paris as a combat-proven platform, already deployed in Ukraine for frontline missions. Drawing on these operational lessons, INKAS positions HEEMAR not as a prototype but as a mature tool for high-risk ground operations. Its presentation at Milipol highlights how Canadian industry now contributes directly to the transformation of land warfare and homeland security concepts worldwide.
At Milipol 2025 in Paris, Canada’s INKAS Aerospace & Defense showcased its combat-proven HEEMAR unmanned ground vehicle, highlighting its role in high-risk frontline logistics and support missions (Picture Source: Army Recognition Group)
HEEMAR is a compact, electrically powered all-terrain carrier designed for the remote execution of dangerous tasks where dismounted troops would be heavily exposed. Weighing about 285 kg, it combines a 2,000 W electric drive, a 120 Ah 48 V battery pack and a range of roughly 45 km, with a maximum speed of 16 km/h depending on configuration. The vehicle is controlled via ERLS links in the 400–500 and 750–950 MHz bands and can be networked through Starlink, giving operators resilient command and control in cluttered urban terrain or under electronic warfare pressure. With a payload capacity of 350 kg, HEEMAR serves as a universal platform able to take on different roles by swapping mission modules rather than redesigning the chassis.
In Ukraine, the HEEMAR UGV is actively used by infantry, special operations, and territorial defense units for combat support, logistics, remote demolitions, and casualty evacuation under fire. It has been deployed on one-way demolition missions against fortified positions, delivered ammunition into urban combat zones, and performed evacuations using remote or fiber-optic control when radio signals are jammed. These frontline experiences have refined its design, from communications to recovery procedures, giving it a level of operational maturity rare for UGVs. This combat-proven record is a critical advantage for users seeking a robotic platform capable of enduring real battlefield conditions.
To cover a wide mission spectrum, INKAS has developed dedicated payload kits around the same base vehicle. The Universal Transport Platform module converts HEEMAR into a low-profile carrier for cargo or medical evacuation, with a folding structure that adapts the length and volume of the cargo bay while keeping the 350 kg payload rating and a maximum wall load of 50 kg. This configuration allows the vehicle to move ammunition, water, rations or a wounded soldier under cover, reducing the need for exposed manual transport. The Mine Delivery System module, powered at 12 V with 500 W output, enables remote deployment of up to 16 TM-type mines, allowing engineers to create obstacles and kill zones without sending sapper teams into direct line of fire and providing a responsive tool for counter mobility tasks.
HEEMAR’s strengths come from its blend of combat-proven roles, modular architecture, and resilient communications. It can deliver remote fire support, conduct logistical resupply, engage targets in depth, evacuate wounded personnel, emplace remote mines, and execute high-risk strike missions while keeping operators at standoff. Paired with aerial ISR, the UGV functions within a multi-domain framework: drones map routes and confirm targets, and HEEMAR carries out ground effects. For forces and security agencies operating with limited personnel and heightened casualty sensitivity, platforms like HEEMAR shift physical risk from humans to machines while sustaining operational tempo in contested environments.
The public presentation of HEEMAR at Milipol 2025 carries broader strategic implications. For Canada, it showcases a nationally developed system whose design has been validated in one of the most demanding contemporary conflicts, strengthening the country’s profile in the high end land robotics segment. For European and NATO planners, the platform illustrates how lessons from Ukraine are being industrialized and offered to partners who must adapt to a battlefield reshaped by unmanned systems, remote mining and attritable platforms. As doctrines evolve to integrate UGVs alongside manned units, systems like HEEMAR are likely to move from specialized tools to standard components of frontline logistics, engineering and fire support, marking a structural shift in how ground operations are planned and executed.