Vice Prime Minister Mikhail Fedorov called on Ukrainians to join free courses, after which they will be able to assemble FPV drones at home.
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Project “People’s Drone” from Victory Drones of the Dignitas technological assistance fund. This is an engineering course that will teach you how to build a 7-inch FPV drone at home.
During the training, you will be given access to lectures, a list of components and tool kits and materials that need to be purchased, as well as access to a community of engineers where you can consult and ask questions.
You collect FPV and send it to Victory Drones instructors. After this, the drone undergoes assembly quality checks and weight testing. If the test is successful, the drone will be handed over to the military,” the minister said.
The call of Deputy Prime Minister Fedorov is being vigorously discussed online these days.
Opinions were divided – some warmly supported it, others branded the idea as profanation and an attempt to shift responsibility from the authorities to society.
BBC Ukraine writes that one of the organizers of the Victory Drones initiative, Maria Berlinskaya, spoke in defense of Mikhail Fedorov. She explained the sharp reaction of part of the public by saying that people misunderstood the minister.
Like, he did not mean at all that Ukraine would not centrally deal with drones, but wanted to praise and advertise a real volunteer initiative that is already working in Ukraine.
The Victory Drones website has a People’s FPV entry form that anyone can fill out to join the drone building course at home. After seven lectures and two weeks, they promise to teach students how to build a 7-inch kamikaze drone with a battery at home.
Next, the drone needs to be sent to instructors for testing. Without this, it cannot be sent to the military.
The course itself is free, but the student will have to buy components for the drone with their own money. According to the listing on the platform’s website, it will cost approximately $340. About 250 more dollars. tools and materials will cost if the listener did not already have them.
It’s like a build-it-yourself construction kit. Your task is to work a little with a soldering iron and put it all together. After that, you hand it all over to a professional programmer, he installs the software, some complex elements, and conducts testing. This greatly increases production rates. That is, qualified workers check the quality of the assembly at the last stage. And unskilled personnel can produce these drones,” said aviation expert, leading researcher at the State Aviation Museum Valery Romanenko in a commentary to NV.
According to him, this is not much different from the circles where they taught radio engineering, programming or aircraft modeling.
True, according to Romanenko, it would be more rational to do this in the format of small productions, and not literally at home, as Fedorov suggested.
Background
Ukrainian officials have said that the military needs between 100,000 and 120,000 drones a month to repel a Russian invasion.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine previously stated that during a full-scale war, the country increased the production of drones a hundred times.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised in December that Ukraine would produce a million drones by 2024.
We are preparing more good news on air defense. We remember about missiles, there will be more about electronic warfare – electronic warfare equipment. And invariably, month after month, we are increasing our Ukrainian artillery production,” the president said in an evening address on January 14.
Source: Racurs
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