The Brave1 technology cluster said that more than 25 teams of engineers are currently working on creating fiber-optic drones. They have even created a separate catalog of such developments.
The Brave1 technology cluster said that more than 25 teams of engineers are currently working on creating fiber-optic drones. They have even created a separate catalog of such developments.
Of the more than 25 teams developing fiber-optic drones, about 10 are preparing documentation to codify their developments, which will open the way for them to the first contracts. One model has already been codified, two more are at the final stage. The Brave1 cluster accompanies the engineering teams throughout the process and helps with testing, writes "Economic Truth".
Ukraine already has factories capable of producing thousands of such drones per month. To speed up procurement, Brave1 has compiled a catalog of fiber optic drone manufacturers with their contacts, which is updated in real time.
At the time of publication, the catalog features 17 FPV kamikazes on fiber optics and 2 NRCs on fiber optics.
The initiative to create such a catalog came from military expert Sergey Beskrestnov (Flash), after he began receiving many requests from the military about where to purchase such drones.
Heavy hexacopters or "bombers" are also gradually being converted to fiber optics. For example, the Dronarium company is testing a drone that has a fiber-optic communication system, but in the event of a break in the thread can switch to control via GPS or return to base on its own. The first ground-based drones with control via fiber optics are also appearing.
In December , a dev.ua journalist visited the testing ground where Dronarium was testing fiber-optic drones in difficult terrain .
Ukrainian company 3DTech has developed a fiber-optic drone called the REBoff Predator. dev.ua spoke with founder Oleksiy Zhulinsky about the trend for fiber-optic drones, the specifics of their use, and how we can win the technological race with the Russians in this segment.
