From basement to battlefield: Ukrainian startups create low-cost drones to fight Russia

(15 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Northern Ukraine - 28 June 2024
1. Wide of corn field and land drone Odyssey moving away
2. Mid of land drone spinning
3. Mid of drone operator and CEO of production company Andrii Denysenko
4. Drone moving away and remote control
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrii Denysenko, 33, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp"
"This is the biggest drone in Ukraine in a caterpillar that exists nowadays and is used in the military. And also we are 10 times cheaper than the similar product from Europe."
6. On board camera shot with drone moving
7. Drone moving
8. Wide of Denysenko controlling Odyssey drone
9. Wide of Odyssey spinning around
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrii Denysenko, 33, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp":
"Our main subject was evacuation, it was logistics and it was battle turret, but you can use it whatever you want, what imagination can create to use."
11. Various of Denysenko moving drone on the testing field
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrii Denysenko, 33, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp":
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"Working with the internet, so the operator can sit in any area where you can take the internet. And we have a capacity of our battery, like 11 Kilowatts which allows us to travel 30 km in one battery."
13. Close of static drone
14. Close of man moving near drone
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrii Denysenko, 33, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp":
"This type of vehicle will be the game changer, and in nearest future this drone, big drone, UAV drone, land drone will be made the main battlefield in this war."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Northern Ukraine - 27 June 2024
16. Various of production bureau workshop
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrii Denysenko, 33, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp":
"The future have become. We are living in the future. We are living with drones, with machines, with robots, with AI. And in our situation we understand that we must use the full power of what's all around us."
18. Various of workers working on drone
19. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andrii Denysenko, 33, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp":
"We position ourselves as a design bureau since we have a chief engineer who is a designer. Therefore, in essence, we have a closed cycle from design to the development of the finished product"
20. Various of chief engineer working on 3D model of drone
21. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Serhii, 38, chief engineer of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp":
"Before this, we designed various buggies for rental. Prior to the full-scale invasion, it was nothing more than a hobby. When the time came, we started designing these kinds of things to help the military"
22. Wide of workshop and Serhii talking
23. Mid of buggies
24. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Serhii, 38, chief engineer of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp":
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"Essentially, it's a large Lego set since we develop 90% of all metal parts. When something breaks for the military, they tell us this number, and we promptly send them new parts so they can quickly replace them."
25. Close of part of transmission of drone
26. Wide of workshop of production bureau
27. Various of workers preparing new parts for the drone
28. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andrii Denysenko, 33, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp":
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29. Various of a gun mock-up that is mounted on a turret
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