Poroshenko Donates Over 2,000 Drones to Ukrainian Military

Ukrainian MP Petro Poroshenko handed over a batch of more than 2,000 drones to the military.

The politician said that the cost of the party is more than a million dollars.

The batch included 2,000 daytime FPV drones equipped with initiation boards.

FPV drones with a thermal imaging camera that can operate at night are also being transferred.

In addition to them, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive Mavic day and night drones for aerial reconnaissance.

“These are the first thermal drones [that] will enable our soldiers to fight the enemy at night. Unfortunately, there are very few of them. But deliveries will increase every week,” Poroshenko said.

Volunteer Yuriy Biriukov said that Petro Poroshenko paid almost 100% of the cost of this shipment.

Previously, Petro Poroshenko said that 15,900 FPV drones had already been transferred to the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

FPV drones are controlled by FPV piloting.

This is one of the areas of aircraft modeling in which the pilot controls the model by watching the image transmitted from the model’s camera through special video glasses or on a monitor.

In the military sense, the term usually refers to high-speed FPV drones that have been transformed into “kamikaze drones” or “bomber UAV” by installing a warhead or munitions drop device.

As previously reported, the Come Back Alive Foundation transferred a PD-2 unmanned tactical reconnaissance system to the Special Forces of the Security Service of Ukraine.