Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation raising funds for 2,000 FPV drones
4 September, 2023 FPV drone, illustrative photo. Photo credits: heroesukraine.org The Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation has announced a fundraiser to purchase 2,000 FPV drones for the most effective units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
As well as for training 420 FPV drone pilots at the Boryviter military school. The project is called Swarm of Revenge and is being implemented together with the Ukrainian ridesharing service Uklon!
The goal is to raise UAH 50 million.
The charitable foundation notes that the FPV drone is an effective weapon. And the more such drones the Ukrainian forces have, the more enemy dugouts, equipment and manpower will be destroyed.
Launch of an FPV drone.
Illustrative photo
"But just buying a lot of drones is not enough - the drones need to be transferred to the trained pilots.
2,000 drones + 420 trained FPV operators is serious," said Serhiy Prytula. Uklon made the first contribution of UAH 3 million to the fundraiser. FPV drones are a type of drones that are actively being used during Russia's war with Ukraine.
The main feature that distinguishes these UAVs from others is that they are controlled through special goggles, i.e. with a first-person view, which is what the acronym FPV stands for - First Person View.
FPV drone, the illustrative photo. Photo from open sources.
The operator sees the video from the drone's camera in real time as if he were sitting inside the UAV itself, just like the pilot. FPV kamikaze drones are high-precision weapons capable of killing personnel, as well as destroying fortifications and heavy armored vehicles.
As previously reported, at the end of July, volunteer Serhiy Prytula demonstrated the Ukrainian-made Bober kamikaze drones, which were repeatedly spotted during attacks on Moscow.
Serhiy Prytula near Bober drone.
Photo credits: Serhiy Prytula.
Serhiy Prytula noted that the cost of one drone with a flight range of 1,000 kilometers was about UAH 4 million (£108,000).
He added that 50 such drones for the amount of UAH 200 million had been purchased for the Defense Forces of Ukraine at the expense of the Serhiy Prytula Charitable Fund.