The “Come Back Alive” Foundation for Competent Assistance to the Army has implemented its most ambitious project – it has acquired the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial system for the Armed Forces of Ukraine for a total cost of $16,502,450 (607,937,716 hryvnias). This is the first time in the history of Ukraine that a volunteer organization has supplied the military with this type of equipment.
This is also the largest project in the history of Ukrainian philanthropy, which the Chairman of the Foundation Taras Chmut and the head of the Main Directorate of the MOU Kirill Budanov teased the day before.
❗️“Turn Back Alive” Foundation by implementing its largest project. With your help, we brought the unmanned aircraft complex Bayraktar TB2, with a total cost of $16,502,450. pic.twitter.com/41PedZXhVt
— Turn Alive (@BackAndAlive) July 26, 2022
We are talking about a full-fledged autonomous system. The complex includes:
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- air communication system;
- mobile ground control complex;
- ground data terminal;
- recognition system “friend or foe”;
- 3 strike UAVs;
- several dozen corrected aviation munitions.
The Ministry of Defense reported that this purchase will significantly increase the power of the Ukrainian armed forces, primarily intelligence units and support for the actions of special forces units.
For the first time in history, the Come Back Alive Foundation implemented a project to purchase an unmanned attack complex consisting of three aircraft, weapons, ground stations and all the necessary equipment.
For the first time in the history of Ukraine, a volunteer organization provided the military with this type of equipment.
Previously, the Come Back Alive Foundation was the first to receive permission to buy military goods abroad (this status allows it to buy the necessary goods from manufacturers without intermediaries). Volunteers will focus specifically on lethal weapons and plan to continue to help arm the Ukrainian military with the support of caring philanthropists.
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On the eve of the Poles assembled on the Bayraktar TB2 UAV for Ukraine , the Lithuanians did it even earlier. In May, they collected five million euros for Bayraktar TB2 for Ukraine in three days , and then the Turkish Defense Minister announced that the UAV would be handed over free of charge, and ammunition for the drone and other assistance would be purchased with the funds raised. In early July, the Lithuanian Bayraktar “Vanagas” arrived in Ukraine and since then has been successfully destroying Russian infidels on the front line. Since then,Canada has also joined the “Buy Ukrainians Bayraktar TB2” flash mob – the organizers of the collection, the public organization UHelpUkraine, want to donate the acquired drone by Independence Day (August 24). In the second half of August, three more “People’s Bayraktars” are expected, which the Turkish manufacturer Baykar Makina agreed to donate to the Ukrainian people .
At the end of June, the Ministry of Defense reported that it received about fifty Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones and contracted dozens more aircraft. In the near future, the Cabinet of Ministers will send to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law on the ratification of the agreement with Turkey, which will allow the production of Bayraktars in Ukraine. At the same time, Baykar Makina publicly stated that they have never sold Bayraktar drones to Russia and do not plan to do so in the future.
