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Project to build and send cheap FPV drones to Ukraine

3 pointsby jwileyover 1 year ago

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jwileyover 1 year ago
Related: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kyivpost.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;21211" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kyivpost.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;21211</a><p>&quot;Ukraine’s ever-escalating drone race with Russia is reaching a critical stage and a low-tech $260 hobby drone has become one of the most vital weapons in the war.<p>In this new Kyiv Post video, hear about how individual FPV drones flown by Ukrainian pilots are being used to destroy Russian vehicles worth millions of dollars.<p>But it’s not all good news for Kyiv’s armed forces – Russia is also using them and has been far more effective at setting up factories to construct them as well as obtaining the necessary parts from China.<p>That’s why Oleksii Asanov, a Ukrainian volunteer and co-founder of KazhanFLY, has set up ‘Social Drone UA’, a project he hopes will recruit people from around the world to build FPV drones and send them to Ukraine’s troops on the frontlines. &quot;