An ‘army of drones’: Inside Ukraine’s secretive drone program
“It’s very stealthy,” drone maker Valeriy Borovyk says. “We call this one Vidsyich .” The Vidsyich is what Borovyk calls a combat drone, designed to attack Russian positions. Borovyk is one of dozens of drone developers that have sprung up all over Ukraine. A first wave appeared when Russia first occupied Crimea and parts of the Donbas in 2014, and another eight years later when Moscow launched its full-scale invasion.
” That’s in part what the Ukrainian military is looking for but the man in charge of drone procurement for the Ukrainian military, Brig. Gen. Yuriy Shchyhol, says drones have changed warfare and claims Kyiv can put all types of UAVs to use. “Each type of drone has a completely different application,” says Shchyhol, the head of the country’s State Service of Special Communications. “Both cheap and expensive drones are needed. And drones with different types of communication.
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