Come Back Alive Foundation transfers a PD-2 reconnaissance UAV to the SSU special forces

The Come Back Alive Foundation has transferred a PD-2 unmanned tactical reconnaissance system to the Special Forces of the Security Service of Ukraine.

The Foundation’s press service announced this.

It is reported that the officers of the SSU Counterintelligence Department received the system. The Foundation shared that the cost of the transferred equipment is almost UAH 30 million.

This system is the eleventh one that has been transferred to the Defense Forces of Ukraine, and it includes:

• two reconnaissance UAVs capable of staying in the air for 10-12 hours in a row and detecting enemy objects day and night;
• a ground station;
• mobile control post, equipped on the basis of a four-wheel drive minibus.

“We regularly see in the news how Russian air defense systems, ammunition depots, and other facilities in the deep rear are burning and exploding, which Ukrainian PD-2 operators were able to detect and adjust the fire of Ukrainian long-range weapons. So we are grateful to each and every one of you who do not stand aside and support your own,” the Come Back Alive Foundation notes.

PD-2 combat missions

On May 3, Militarnyi reported that the operators of the direct action unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and the HIMARS operators destroyed the Russian Tor air defense system in the Zaporizhzhia direction.

PD-2 discovered and recorded the destruction of the target, which the Come Back Alive Foundation purchased and transferred to the DIU.

The published video captures a high-precision projectile of the GMLRS family hitting a target that stands in the field.

PD-2 UAV

The PD-2 is one of the best Ukrainian unmanned aerial systems at the operational and tactical level in its class.

With a flight radius of over 200 kilometers and the ability to stay in the air for up to 12 hours, the system has proven to be one of the most effective for detecting and tracking enemy targets for HIMARS and other long-range weapons systems.

Each drone has an optical observation station with 30x zoom for the daytime channel and 5x zoom for the thermal imaging channel.

This allows conducting detailed reconnaissance at a distance of 5 kilometers from the drone, and the observation one from even further away. Operators control UAVs from mobile control posts.