You have probably already seen these photos and read about this event. Yes, there was a "graduation ceremony" for 5 crews from 5 brigades graduated from the Poseidon H10 MkIII UAV training. This is 5 complexes, 15 aircraft, and 75,000,000 hryvnias. Most importantly, it means five crews that will soon start finding "fat" targets, and then heavy and loud things will come there. You have already seen it today. But a lot has been left behind the scenes.
What was left out of the picture is that exactly one year ago we started negotiations with the supplier. Then, on May 14, the first fundraiser for the first complex was announced. The price seemed enormous, the amount seemed unbearable. But we made it. And then we made it again. And then again and again. The first ten issues have already passed.
The fact that a pilot training base was deployed at the Armed Forces training center this year was left out. The complex is currently in the process of being put into service, and an additional service and maintenance center is being deployed in Kyiv.
What went unreported was that thousands of people donated money to the project. Yes, half of this incredible amount of 75,000,000 hryvnias was paid by Petro Poroshenko himself, with his own money. But the other half was paid by you. You, who heard us and heard the military's request for help.
What's left out is that in a month and a half, there will be a new episode. And here, you better sit down, because the volume is increasing again - in a month and a half, we will release 6 crews! Volumes are increasing because of the growing demand. The army is preparing for a breakthrough, the army is preparing for the liberation of our land, and for this the army needs "eyes" that will break through the front line and go deep into the rear for tens of kilometers. They will find ammunition bases, enemy equipment parking lots, barracks and tent camps. And then a rain of fire will fall on their heads from the sky.
We are not going to say that we need your help to fulfill the plan of 6 complexes. But what we are asking you to hear is that even 20 hryvnias is help! And 5 dollars for a pepal is help.