Ukraine's Unmanned Programs Forces (USF) introduced on June 20 the institution of a brand new command group that can unite the department with different high drone models within the nation's navy.
Drones have develop into one of many defining instruments of the full-scale warfare, used extensively by each Ukraine and Russia for surveillance, long-range strikes, and tactical battlefield firepower.
The brand new formation will unite all navy models of the USF with the Drone Line, a challenge launched by President Volodymyr Zelensky in February this 12 months to coordinate and broaden 5 of the nation's strongest drone models.
The brand new command umbrella was created to "enhance the effectivity of administration, rework the Forces, and adapt to the necessities of recent warfare," based on the assertion.
The models will function inside a single chain of command, with an outlined construction and a standard imaginative and prescient of unmanned aerial car (UAV) techniques with the intention to harmonize approaches, set up joint work, and use unmanned methods extra successfully in fight, the USF mentioned.
The Unmanned Programs Forces had been created as a separate department of Ukraine's navy in June 2024.
At the moment, Ukraine's strongest present drone models served in different branches of the protection forces, together with the Floor Forces, Nationwide Guard, and the Safety Service of Ukraine.
The newly-created group will probably be led by Main Robert Brovdi, higher identified by his callsign Magyar, whom Zelensky appointed because the commander of the USF in early June.
Brovdi had beforehand served as commander of the eponymous Magyar's Birds Unmanned Programs Brigade, a founding member of the Drone Line initiative and some of the persistently high-performing drone models within the Ukrainian navy.
A world-first phenomenon, Ukraine's Unmanned Programs Forces works to enhance the nation's drone operations, creating drone-specific models, ramping up coaching, growing drone manufacturing, and advancing innovation.
The USF has additionally carried out a whole lot of operations deep inside Russian territory.
Following in Ukraine's footsteps, Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced the creation of his nation's personal particular person drone department on June 12.
Colonel Vadym Sukharevskyi, beforehand deputy commander-in-chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, was named the primary commander of the USF on June 10, 2024.
Brovdi changed Sukharevskyi, who was dismissed on June 3.
In keeping with navy personnel who spoke anonymously to Ukrainian information outlet Suspilne, Sukharevskyi's relationship with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi was tense from the start of the USF's formation.
Sukharevskyi's appointment was a choice by president Zelensky, not Syrskyi, sources mentioned.
Folks near each Syrskyi and Sukharevskyi additionally claimed the 2 males prevented face-to-face interactions.
The Kyiv IndependentKateryna Hodunova