PHOTO: A coaching and testing space for drones has been opened in Selia

On Thursday, June 6, Protection Minister Andris Spruds visited the Selia navy coaching space, the place the coaching and testing space for drones was opened.

“The opening of the drone check web site is a step ahead not solely within the improvement of the Selia check web site, but additionally within the strengthening of drone capabilities – the drone check web site will develop into a spot the place representatives of our drone trade can frequently. testing of their tools introduced that zero provide of drones within the UK shall be straight examined on the Selia coaching floor,” says A. Spruds.

Together with the opening of the coaching and testing space, navy workouts had been held for the primary time on the Selia discipline, which is a part of the worldwide navy workouts “Baltic Zenith 2024”. The Air Power of the Nationwide Armed Forces participated within the train along with representatives of the drone coalition, conducting exams of unmanned aerial automobiles to make sure their compliance with the necessities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .

By testing drones, the native trade is developed, the technical capabilities and tactical use of drones are examined, the applied sciences are developed, offering the perfect out there within the trade.

It has already been reported that to be able to develop and strengthen the drone functionality of the Latvian Nationwide Armed Forces in any respect ranges, 20 million euros shall be invested within the improvement of capabilities this 12 months and within the coming years.

Additionally, responding to the curiosity of the enterprise and inspiring the event of the enterprise atmosphere, the Ministry of Protection invitations corporations to submit functions for a grant competitors for the event of improvements within the discipline of unmanned aerial automobiles work earlier than June 21, with a complete funding of 600,000 euros.

On Might 14 this 12 months, three months have handed since Latvia and the UK established a drone coalition to help Ukraine. A complete of 14 nations have introduced their participation within the drone coalition – Latvia, Ukraine, the UK, Australia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Canada, Lithuania, the Holland, Poland, Germany and Sweden. Different nations might be part of them. To this point, the members of the drone coalition have raised greater than 500 million euros to convey drones to Ukraine.

On the similar time, on behalf of the drone coalition, the UK and Latvia have introduced a suggestion to supply first-person view (FPV) drones to Ukraine. Data on the best way to apply might be discovered on the UK Protection Portal. An entrepreneur from any member state of the Protection Intelligence Company of Ukraine can take part within the competitors.