a few thousand km from the front line
this is where everything starts
every 23 seconds in this facility we
have already run
through 350 3D
printers today they can produce 4,000
per
day but the point is that it means that
they can produce millions per year
a few thousand kilometers from the front
line this is where everything starts
we're in a secret location where they
build and produce the drones that
they're going to send on the front
line this is where the Ukrainian company
Skyfall produces a massive amount of the
feared vampire drones daily nicknamed
Babayaga by the Russians those huge
drones can take up to 15 kilos of
explosive charges behind enemy lines
for safety reasons we must cover the
faces of employees working here
only at this facility we
produce thousands of bombers per month
and if we are talking about FPVs we
produce hundreds of thousands per month
the drones are assembled and tested here
before being sent on the battlefield we
can't show all the steps of the
production in detail to preserve the
company's sensitive tech
the vampire stands out for its size and
its capacity to deliver four explosive
charges at once but this must be tested
first and this is the stand where one of
the workers put fake charges to check if
the system
works the other perk of the vampire is
this device on top to bypass Russian
jamming we can't reveal actually the the
details yeah for the technical solutions
cuz this is our own development and
production for the signal system it can
um be switching between different
frequencies trying to figure out the
best solution even without the pilot so
this is kind of this is the the stuff
that is smarter than me I think when we
walk around we're surrounded by security
guys uh this is how secret this place is
last week we were on the front line near
Luhansk where pilots showed us how they
best used the state-of-the-art FPV
drones produced on this site to counter
Russian electronic warfare
we also have like a turning point at
Ukrainian and I hope for the world
battlefield strike 10 CV with computer
vision feature that um enables the pilot
to lock the target and even being fully
jammed and spoofed the drone will hit
the target successfully despite the
strong wind severe weather conditions
and so on this solution has been already
tested at the battlefield we got
positive
feedback one camera is to detect the um
the moving vehicle for example or the
target to strike at so and another
camera is to give the pilot the picture
actually what to look the pilot sees the
target for example even that can be 1
kilometer far away
in this section we are testing the power
of the video
signal this is a very important
component so that the drone operator can
correctly see the image from the camera
over a certain distance on the
front the company is also working on a
model of Shrike waterproof drones that
take off directly from the water opening
a whole new range of tactics against the
Russians
today they can produce 4,000 per day
they're also expanding capacities but
the point is that it means that they can
produce millions per
year so every piece of FPVs that are
going to be sent on the battlefield are
literally printed here on this 350
uh 3D printers those pieces are then
brought to other rooms where hundreds of
employees assemble them into FPV drones
almost ready for battle if they pass the
test
how long does it take to build one
every 23 seconds on this facility we
have already one drone
so the question is in the supply chain
for spear parts and components we can be
waiting for a long time for the camera
or motor rotary but then just assemble
it with the seconds as the first
invasion drags on Ukraine must
increasingly rely on its domestic drone
production to tip the scales of the war
in its favor such factories now able to
produce up to 5 million drones in a year
nationwide are the backbone of Ukraine's
fight for victory and the faster the
production the closer the victory for
Ukraine
