The developers learned of the shortage of cheap reconnaissance drones and plan to produce 1,000 drones per month.
Jointly created by military volunteers, the Sirko unmanned aerial vehicle helps the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the counterattack due to its high technical characteristics. This is discussed in the program “Ranok Vdoma”.
Thanks to the Skyassist initiative, which started working in March 2022, it became possible to create an unmanned aerial vehicle of this level. Working on the production of the UAVs, the team has already set an ambitious goal of “launching off the assembly line” up to a thousand fighter jets a year.
The idea to start working on such a technique was first born by Igor Krinichko, residing in Kharkiv, and Igor Finyak, residing in Lviv. At first the men volunteered, and then they learned from the fighters at the front that the Ukrainian army did not have drones with a sufficient budget. This prompted them to start developing their own drone. In this they were helped by experts from the Kharkov Aviation Institute, the Institute of Radio Electronics and the Kharkov Polytechnic.
Technical specifications of the Savaş UAV Sirko
- impact radius – 65 km;
- communication with the operator – transmits the video at a distance of 25 km;
- size – 93 cm;
- flight time – up to 90 m;
- equipment – precision camera, ground station;
- purpose – implementation of reconnaissance missions;
- Price – from 3 dollars to 4 thousand dollars.
“It’s capable of flying for about 90 minutes with a margin. It depends on the weather. It has a very sensitive camera for primary reconnaissance,” said Igor Krinichko, one of the founders of the Skyassist initiative.
Recall that in early July it was learned that the Ukrainian army has invented an “invisible” ground drone that can even blow up the tanks of the Russian Armed Forces. A four-wheeled car costs only 30,000 UAH and looks like a toy, but in reality it is a dangerous weapon.
And at the end of April, the media wrote that engineers from Kharkov are developing the Sirko-S combat robot for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The wheeled drone is equipped with an optical camera, thermal camera, obstacle detection system and 150 kg cargo compartment that allow it to perform many different tasks.
Source: Focus
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