06/20/2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
Petro Poroshenko handed over a batch of the latest drones to the soldiers of the Achilles attack drone battalion of the 92nd brigade named after the chieftain of Kosh Ivan Sirk. Only in May in the Kharkiv region, while repulsing the Russians in the Liptsi district, the battalion’s fighters hit 557 enemy targets – equipment, BC, enemy fortifications and personnel.
The new FPV drones that the Achilles fighters received are experimental, they use the homing principle. Poroshenko told about this in social networks.
According to the soldiers of the battalion, in the Kharkiv direction, compared to Bakhmut, where the boys fought before, the enemy has an order of magnitude more air reconnaissance means, as well as more intensive missile attacks. In addition, there is an extremely high saturation of anti-aircraft weapons – an order of magnitude more than on Bakhmut – and the anti-aircraft weapons themselves are newer models.
“Achilles” is one of the most competent and professional units in its field. They started on February 24, 2022, and now they are already setting excellent record results in destroying the enemy. These days, in Kharkiv Oblast, you must have seen videos of their work on the Internet,” said the fifth president.
“The division is not easy, that’s why FPVs are special – they are the latest experimental drones. We can’t tell you much about them, it’s a secret and a deadly surprise for the enemy. But I will make a hint – the principle of homing is used here. We are waiting for feedback and will jointly refine our technologies approaching victory,” says Petro Poroshenko.
“Thanks to these “birds”, tomorrow we will destroy the enemy’s equipment and manpower,” says the battalion representative.
“Another example of effective, cool cooperation! This is our constructive and example of national unity,” the fifth President is convinced.
Thank you so much!
Mr. Poroshenko has been consistently providing various types of equipment for the Ukrainian armed forces all throughout the war. My hat goes off to him and his staff!
“Petro Poroshenko handed over a batch of the latest drones to the soldiers of the Achilles attack drone battalion of the 92nd brigade named after the chieftain of Kosh Ivan Sirk. ”
For anyone interested in Ukrainian history, Ivan Sirko was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader, Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host and putative co-author of the famous semi-legendary Cossack letter to the Ottoman sultan that inspired the major painting Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by the 19th-century artist Ilya Repin.