Ukrainian Armed Forces receive FPV drones with auto-guidance and target destruction (video)
FPV drones with an automatic targeting and engagement system have been introduced to the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
A video from the soldiers of the 60th and 63rd separate mechanized brigades was posted by volunteer Serhiy Sternenko.
The video shows how the drone’s targeting system locks onto a target, after which communication is cut off by enemy electronic warfare.
However, after that, the drone continued to attack the target in automatic mode and successfully hit it.
The volunteer noted that the technology is new and needs to be refined and scaled up, so he announced a corresponding fundraiser for the purchase of such drones, the goal of which is UAH 50 million.
The funds will be used to purchase more than 1,300 of these day and night drones in classic and winged configurations.
This financial injection will help not only equip the Defense Forces with a large number of autonomous kamikaze drones, but also help develop this promising technology.
Sternenko added that as soon as the technology is fully ready, the state will be involved in its purchase to further scale production.
Sternenko also said that the Russians have been testing this technology for more than a month, and that its development and scaling in Ukraine is urgently needed.
Innovation in FPV drones
Militarny recently reported that Russians used an FPV drone on a fiber optic cable.
It was handed over to the specialists of the separate battalion of strike drones “Birds of Magyara” for further study.
“We saw something we had never seen before. A Russian FPV drone was flying toward a target with a 10-kilometer-long coil of thin fiber optic cable. The wire was unwound in the air. Thus, we see a new technology of FPV drone control,” said Serhiy Flesh.
The use of wired communication in drone control offers an important advantage: such a drone becomes invulnerable to its own and enemy electronic warfare, but it limits the range of use, payload weight, and maneuverability.
