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The Lithuanian Ministry of Defence has announced a €36 million investment in various types of drones as part of ongoing efforts to modernise the country's armed forces.
The information was shared by the Militarnyi publication. The plant was launched this spring. It is already producing Vector drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. So far, the company is assembling drones from ready-made kits that come from Germany, but in the future, the company wants to localise the production of some design elements.
Ukrainian volunteer Serhiy Sternenko has published a video of the downing of a new ZALA Z-20 reconnaissance drone by the Russian army.
The Belaruski Gayun Telegram channel reports on the downing of a Russian Shahed UAV over the territory of Belarus. On the night of 29 August 2024, during another Russian attack on Ukraine, one of the Shahed drones again flew into the territory of Belarus in the Yel district of the Gomel region. The fact of crossing the border of Belarus was confirmed by the telegram channel "Nikolayevsky Vanyok" at 3.30 am.
Information about this appeared on the ministry's website. It is about the contract for $990 million. The exact number of UAVs has not been disclosed yet. It is also unknown when the first deliveries of the systems will begin.
This time the information was shared by Ukrainian Digital Transformation Minister Mykhaylo Fedorov in an interview with the Associated Press. Fyodorov said that one drone missile "Palianitsya" costs less than $1m.
The drone was developed over the course of 1.5 years. By wartime standards, this is very fast. It is also known that the Palianitsya is launched from a ground-based launcher. The missile has a turbojet engine.
This was announced by Baykar, a company that manufactures UAVs. Kenyan operators have already undergone a training programme to use the drones. Deliveries of the first Bayraktar TB2s will begin shortly.
Latvian Defence Minister Andris Spruds said this on Twitter. We are talking about 1,400 drones. They are already ready for dispatch.
The American company Thunderstrike Aviation has recently inaugurated a new drone manufacturing facility in Denmark.
On the battlefield, we noticed isolated cases of Russian invaders using FPV drones, which operate thanks to fibre-optic cables.
The Chinese company Skywalker has shown the first FPV drone controlled by fibre-optic cable.
The 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade demonstrated a Ukrainian-made ground drone with a "Luty 2.0" machine gun, which is in service with the brigade.
The armed formations of the so-called PMR have begun to mount anti-drone "braziers" on their old T-64BV tanks.
The British Army has begun training flights with its Watchkeeper WK450 tactical unmanned aerial vehicle over the skies of Pärnu and Western Estonia.
