Come fanno i piloti di droni in Ucraina a restare concentrati mentre sono al fronte? Tanta, tanta caffeina. Questo è un video di un pilota di droni e caposquadra sponsorizzato da PAV. Guarda i commenti per maggiori informazioni sulla storia dietro questo video e su come puoi supportare le operazioni dei droni in Ucraina.

Now that this video is a few months old we have permission to post it.

This is a video from Herring, an American drone pilot in Ukraine. Herring’s team is supported by Protect a Volunteer. We recently supplied them with a DJI Mavic thermal drone from our general donations. Herring is one of the most experienced foreign drone pilots in Ukraine and came into the war with substantial experience as a civilian drone pilot and is an Army veteran and former West Point instructor.

This is Herring’s explanation of what is happening in this video: I was awake for 76 hours at that point non stop flying night and day with my co pilot and needed some strong caffine to keep me going for 3 more hours and we were doing artillery correction and had just helped do a fire mission that resulted in a rotation group of russians being killed and wounded roughly 4 soldiers with a possibility of a 5.

Almost every team we work with needs drones. If you would like to help supply them here are a few options:

1. Match up with a volunteer we support. We have multiple volunteers waiting who need help with everything from drones to NVGs to rent for the team house. You can sign up as a supplies donor at [protectavolunteer.com](http://protectavolunteer.com)
2. If you want to specifically support drone operations then this is what we recommend:
3. Request to match up with Herring. You will receive…so many cat videos if you do that.
4. The 130th TDF Air Recon team is a drone team (see the video I posted of them yesterday).
5. Droney McDroneface. This team is listed on our Paypal and you can also match up with some of the members. We have few updates we can publich publicly about this team but I do have an interview with one of them that should be ready soon.

What a champ ✊

I drove to ukraine 4 times this year and one stock item I take lots of is Yorkshire tea bags, a decent brew helps put days in perspective.

Steep the tea bags in a pot of coffee…you will be awake for a looong time!