The "Come Back Alive" fund has handed a hundred unmanned complexes manufactured by a Latvian company called Atlas. The foundation says each donated complex includes three drones which brings it up to 300 unmanned aerial vehicles.
The AtlasPRO is a lightweight tri-copter system that notably uses encrypted data, according to the producer.
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Another interesting feature is "MESH" technology. The drones create a network that allows a single operator to operate numerous drones at once. The drones share data with one another and each drone acts as an "antenna" to provide signal to the ones out of sight.
A whole complex consists of several drones, a controls tablet, a relay and a takeoff-recharge station. The message from the "Come Back Alive" mentions all the components but the latter. It is unclear, whether the docking equipment is included in the purchase.
This station called AtlasNEST is provided under leasing program and considerable prices (€4,200 per month). So they might have left it at that and gone without the "nest" for the drones.
The foundation said the first complexes are already used by the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As we know from previous news, Ukrainian SOF often act as coordinators for the artillery and provide adjust fire.
Just the other day, SOF Command released another video depicting such cooperation, with russian BM-27 "Uragan" MLRS destroyed by artillery fire supported by real-time drone imagery:
Side note: "Come Back Alive" is a Ukraine-based charity organization that’s been providing the Ukrainian military with equipment since 2014.
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