And this story is from May, so how time has flown! It was on May 14 that Yuriy Biryukov, the mastermind and driver of our movement, wrote a post saying that we had found a set of large UAVs and wanted to buy them for the paratroopers. He didn't think about the cost of the complex of 325,000 euros, nor did he think that we would swing again and again. The money was raised, Petro Poroshenko paid half of it, and we delivered the system to the paratroopers. And then we thought, maybe we should try to raise money for 3 more? And then we thought, maybe... To date, we have signed contracts for the supply of 20 Poseidon H10/11 systems. It will be 20 brigades of the Armed Forces.
And now another facet of the project. It was from the first recipients that we noticed a request for a special car for transportation and work. They asked for a minibus, which seems to be the usual format for traveling, sleeping, and flying. But the minibus has a problem with cross-country ability in spring and fall. And that's where our DAF Leyland trucks and our technicians came in. Now we have a control machine, all-wheel drive and diesel engine, comfortable work chairs, Starlink for data transmission, an autonomous interior heater, generators and charging stations. Is it worth mentioning that now all brigades will receive such vehicles for their Poseidons?
But that's not all. Training and maintenance! After all, it would be possible to continue to train pilots at the manufacturer's courses, as long as it was a single delivery, it was acceptable. But dozens, DOZENS!!! of unified systems, many dozens of aircraft and control stations, software updates and minor repairs. The army has to be autonomous, which means... which means that army instructors have been trained, the material base has been created (and we also paid for the repairs) and now the training takes place in a modern training center of the Armed Forces! We do not show it, well... for obvious reasons.
Money. If you've read this far, read about money.
Yesterday we handed over three complexes worth UAH 45,763,823. Almost fifty million hryvnias. Part of it was raised by us, most of it was paid by the private sector, Democratic Axe raised money, and Oleksandr Vilkul (yes, the same one) raised and transferred some money. Together, we raised this money and paid for super-efficient UAVs for our military. And that's how we all together raised and paid for 10 systems, they have already been fully purchased. The contract is for 20, and we have made an advance payment for the second dozen. And the sooner we can buy the cargo, the sooner we can help the Armed Forces take revenge. To take revenge for Bucha and Irpin, for Mariupol and Volnovakha, for Izyum and for yesterday's Dnipro.
We are pulling our weight, but we need your help. We desperately need resources to buy back the second batch, to manufacture control machines, to buy spare parts for trucks, to pay for Starlinks. The list is fucking long. We need help, and we rarely write and speak so bluntly. In this project, we NEED your help! We need reposts and likes, we need to tell our friends about this project. We are in a vacuum of information blockade, and this project is important for the Armed Forces.