The robot prevented the alert launch of helicopters to intercept enemy forces completely smoking the airfield. The unmanned vehicle creeped through enemy lines towing a smoky system. Before NATO forces could respond, the enemy took advantage of the situation and gained the advanced hand. This incidental occurred during an Allied exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, and demonstrated the possible as well as the dangers of unmanned vehicles on the battlefield.