At the beginning of 2024, the commander of the K-2 battalion, Kyrylo Veres, asked us to create an affordable FPV bomber that would carry up to six kilograms of payload and cost the same as a few regular kamikaze drones.
We set out to bring this idea to life.
Three months of work, hundreds of tests, two dozen broken units, and then the launch of the pre-production batch. Then successful combat tests at the front and the start of serial production.
Our success was achieved thanks to Ukrainian electronics, which were developed during the war, and the experience of our FPV operators. Currently, the drone consists of 65% Ukrainian components.
Our new drone was named the Queen Hornets – by analogy with the hierarchy of a hornet family in nature, where everything is built around the queen.
The Queen Hornets is a multifunctional platform: bomber, kamikaze, transport drone, remote mining of logistic routes, carrier of kamikaze drones, and carrier of relay stations.
Currently, more than a hundred Queens Hornets are already operating at the front. We have just as many on the conveyor. Each month, the number of these drones will increase.
Moreover, a new version of the Queen is already being prepared in our lab, which will have a new innovative frame, special communications, and will carry twice the combat weight.
All this has become possible thanks to the support of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, Ukrainian businesses, and our foreign friends. Please don’t stop, together we can influence the course of the war, support our project:
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How We Created the Largest Ukrainian FPV Drone 🐝👑
At the beginning of 2024, the commander of the K-2 battalion, Kyrylo Veres, asked us to create an affordable FPV bomber that would carry up to six kilograms of payload and cost the same as a few regular kamikaze drones.
We set out to bring this idea to life.
Three months of work, hundreds of tests, two dozen broken units, and then the launch of the pre-production batch. Then successful combat tests at the front and the start of serial production.
Our success was achieved thanks to Ukrainian electronics, which were developed during the war, and the experience of our FPV operators. Currently, the drone consists of 65% Ukrainian components.
Our new drone was named the Queen Hornets – by analogy with the hierarchy of a hornet family in nature, where everything is built around the queen.
The Queen Hornets is a multifunctional platform: bomber, kamikaze, transport drone, remote mining of logistic routes, carrier of kamikaze drones, and carrier of relay stations.
Currently, more than a hundred Queens Hornets are already operating at the front. We have just as many on the conveyor. Each month, the number of these drones will increase.
Moreover, a new version of the Queen is already being prepared in our lab, which will have a new innovative frame, special communications, and will carry twice the combat weight.
All this has become possible thanks to the support of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, Ukrainian businesses, and our foreign friends. Please don’t stop, together we can influence the course of the war, support our project:
https://x.com/wilendhornets/status/1813172906735575392
Damn, 18kg!? Wow!
Paint it green. Green Hornet, eheheh.
Also, add AI.
Terminator Green Hornet.
Great news. Good to see things progressing.
Heavy loads with random shapes/geometry/weight distribution is always a challenge for flight.