The event puts drone-makers to the test, forcing their creations to demonstrate their capabilities in attacking ground targets, chasing fixed-wing drones and even drone dog fights. “It is very important for us to find companies that can scale, to look at new usage formats, because this is a technological war.” “Every few weeks, we conduct various studies, see what is happening in this direction, look for new drone developers, study the results,” Fedorov explains. “Today we are looking at FPV (First Person View) drone developers,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov says, before surveying the developers. Ukrainian and foreign UAV makers rock up early at an open field in the outskirts of Kyiv, to take part in a drone competition organized by the Ministry of Digital Transformation. His operation is just one small part of an industry built on Ukrainian ingenuity and survival instinct, which the country’s government and military are keen to support. And they have several models, of all shapes and sizes. “We mostly concentrate on very expensive equipment.”īorovyk says his company is in the process of upscaling its production after signing a deal with a factory in Ukraine, which would increase production from 50 drones per month to over 1,000. “It has a range of 40 kilometers and can carry a warhead of two to three kilograms,” he says. Vasco Cotovio/CNNīorovyk says he and his team developed the Vidsyich for use in combination with other surveillance drones they have also built. Valeriy Borovyk as his Vidsyich drone - one of several he's developed - is catapulted into the sky.
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