"Now the brigade from us can get only 200-300 FPVs a month," said Sergei Varakin. He added that his battalion needs 2200-2500 drones per month, but the state passes very little. The lack of servicemen of the unit has to compensate for their money, buying directly from manufacturers. Only this opportunity does not allow the situation to become critical.
The commander of the 429th Separate Regiment of Achilles Unmanned Systems Yuriy Fedorenko says that almost 500 UAV units in defense are provided with drones according to a mixed model: one third is received from the Ministry of Defense, the other is purchased for funds allocated by the military unit and the third. This spring, there is a reduction in the supply of UAV from the state.
According to Yuri Fedorenko, therefore there are both subjective (unprofessionalism of officials) and objective problems. From the latter, we can distinguish bureaucratic obstacles with funding and contracting that have created this year. "It looks like this: we have money today, because the partners were given, we ordered, but what we ordered will be in the troops in two months," the regiment commander shared.
According to the Armed Forces commanders, it is thanks to FPV-Drome fighters should create and hold the "dead zone" ("Killzone") with a depth of 10-15 km on the front line so that the Russian infantry could not move. UAVs for defense forces have become the main means of lesion, which destroys almost 80% of all goals.
Civil services are publicly declared that production in Ukraine has increased to about 10 million years, but the troops on the forefront are not felt, even on the contrary, complain of reducing quantity and quality. Earlier, a serviceman of the 59th Separate assault brigade named after Jacob Gandziuk, Alexander Karpyuk, told Focus why the Defense Ministry is not supplying the Drones of the Armed Forces. In his opinion, this is the fault of the tender system and uneven funding.
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