The Ministry of Digital Transformation plans to acquire 200 reconnaissance drones for the Armed Forces by September
Funds for the Army of Drones are being raised through the UNITED24 platform
What happened? The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine announced the purchase of 118 drones. Funds for the Army of Drones were raised through the UNITED24 platform.
Source. The Ministry of Digital Transformation on its Telegram channel.
Details. The first control complex and four Fly Eye drones have already been delivered to Ukraine, today they will go to the frontline to strengthen the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“In total, over 751 million hryvnias were collected for the Army of Drones through the UNITED24 platform. For the first UAH 260 million of this amount, contracts were signed for the purchase of two control stations, 20 Fly Eye drones, 78 Matrice multicopters, as well as two ground systems for 20 Warmate combat drone kamikaze,” the ministry says in a statement.
By the end of August, the ministry plans to complete the first task – to purchase 200 reconnaissance drones.
The Ministry of Digital Transformation also says that negotiations with Ukrainian manufacturers of drones, such as SKIF, Skyton and Ukrjet, whose products can potentially also be purchased for the Army of Drones are held.
“Ukrjet is one of the largest Ukrainian UAVs with serial production. It spends about ten hours in the air and can fly 150 kilometres away from the control station. SKIF has a camera that works offline. Skyton can spend up to 20 hours in the sky,” the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov recounts.
Previously. About 400 Ukrainian soldiers are ready to work as drone operators within the Army of Drones project.
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