Protection Minister Andris Spruds mentioned in an interview with the TV3 program “900 Seconds” that the drone testing website will open this Wednesday, June 5, writes LETA.
He recalled that growing the potential of drones is necessary for strengthening the nation’s protection functionality, and the expertise of Ukraine exhibits the significance of drones on the battlefield.
This yr, it’s deliberate to allocate 20 million euros to the event of the unmanned potential of the protection business, whereas a part of the funds might be directed to the manufacturing of drones in Latvia.
The drone testing facility at Celia Proving Floor is required to proceed improvement of the drone system.
It was beforehand reported that the coaching of drone pilots will proceed at numerous ranges of the protection business – in Jaunsardze, amongst individuals in nationwide protection workout routines, on the Colonel Oskar Kalpak Vocational Excessive College, within the Nationwide Protection Service.
The Ministry of Protection invitations firms to submit purposes for a grant competitors for the event of improvements within the discipline of unmanned aerial autos by June 21, throughout the framework of which 600 thousand euros might be distributed among the many winners. Additionally, in cooperation with Latvijas mobilais telefons LLC, the ideological hackathon “Drones for Ukraine” might be held on the Latvian Struggle Museum from Might 29 to 30.
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2024-06-07 05:15:41