The Come Back Alive Foundation has handed over a PD-2 reconnaissance system to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Foundation reported about this on Tuesday, October 24, on its social media pages.
This is the fifth PD-2 unmanned aerial system that the Foundation has transferred to Ukrainian defenders this year.
Contributions from donors allowed the Foundation to transfer a system of two reconnaissance UAVs, a mobile control post based on a four-wheel drive minibus with everything necessary for the comfortable work of operators, a ground station, and spare parts to the aerial reconnaissance unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The cost of this set is UAH 29,921,679.04.
With its help, the Armed Forces will be able to conduct reconnaissance of the positions of the Russian invaders to a depth of 180 km and adjust the work of Ukrainian long-range artillery and rocket systems, including HIMARS, at the rear posts and equipment of the invaders.
Each drone has an optical sensor with a 30x zoom for the daytime mode and a 5x one for thermal imaging.
The PD-2 drone can clearly identify the target coordinates in the frame at a distance of more than 5 kilometers.
The operator controls the reconnaissance drone from a mobile control post.
The Come Back Alive Foundation emphasized that four previously donated Ukrainian-made PD-2 systems are already operating at the forefront. The next step is to transfer six more such reconnaissance systems to the aerial reconnaissance units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
Last year, the Foundation purchased 11 such systems: 10 were purchased for over UAH 300,000,000 at the expense of donations to the general accounts of the charity, and the DOU IT community raised funds for another one.
Representatives of Uklon also joined the DOU fundraising and donated UAH 1 million to the PD-2. In October of this year, the Come Back Alive Foundation transferred two PD-2 reconnaissance drones to the Special Operations Center “A” of the Security Service of Ukraine.