Category: Defense

SIGNUM has now joined a different branch of service — the Unmanned Systems Forces. From now on, the unit serves as part of the 59th Brigade “Steppe Predators.”

SIGNUM is constantly evolving. The unit preserves and encourages initiative — in finding new solutions, mastering new weapons, technologies, and tactics. Because the nature of war changes every day, and we adapt even faster.

SIGNUM extends its gratitude to the 53rd Brigade for this past year — a year that has already become part of history while also laying the foundation of our strength. Together, we destroyed nearly 5,000 enemy targets: hundreds of pieces of military equipment, shot down 525 enemy drones, eliminated 1,398 occupiers, destroyed 226 UAV launch sites and pilot shelters, disabled 206 artillery systems, and obliterated nearly 2,000 enemy fortifications and shelters.

A new chapter begins. The mission continues.

Key achievements:

• 3,284 enemy targets destroyed
• Among the first to intercept Shahed drones using UAVs
• Demonstrated leadership in transitioning to fiber-optic drone systems
• Opened a branch of the “Blue Door” UAV school in Dnipro
• Battalion commander Viktor Pecherytsia (“Sova”) was included in the UP100 list

On their day off, three servicemen — Tourist, Shvaiger, and Bublyk — head out in a small bus to one of the hills in Donetsk region…

In the interview, Tourist shares:

🎙 “On July 11, 2025, I shot down my first Shahed — and finally smoked a cigar I’d been saving for months. I even took it with me to Madeira on vacation, waiting for the right moment. I proposed to my girlfriend there, she said yes — I thought I’d smoke it then, but forgot. And here — its time finally came.”

🎙 “In three working days, we shot down 7 Shaheds. That’s not much — we could have done more, but we simply ran out of equipment. If we had 20 drones, we would have taken down 20.”

🎙 “All interceptor drones are currently supplied exclusively by Sternenko. We are a mechanized brigade — we simply can’t afford this ourselves.”

📝 Read the full story in the Ukrainska Pravda report:
Who and how in the Ukrainian army is trying to independently intercept Russian UAVs flying deep into the country.

✅ The first target was destroyed by Signum in July this year, followed shortly by a record —
5 Shahed drones intercepted within a single hour.

Today, 80% of successful strikes are carried out using fiber-optic FPV drones, which are immune to electronic warfare and effectively bypass anti-drone nets. In the Serebrianske forestry area, a kill zone of up to 15 km has been established — where everything that moves is detected and neutralized.

Read the interview with “Sova,” commander of the Signum battalion, for Ukrainska Pravda.

At a critical moment, we stepped in to support reliable brigades operating at the forefront of Ukraine’s defense. Once again, in urgent conditions, the Signum unit of the 53rd Brigade named after Volodymyr Monomakh, along with the new command of the 59th Brigade named after Yakiv Handziuk, are holding the line after intense enemy assaults.

Deployed to the battlefield:
✅ 3 units of DJI Matrice 4T
✅ 23 units of DJI Mavic 3T
✅ 35 units of DJI Mavic 3 Pro
✅ 20 FPV drones “Horobets-13”

Air superiority means the ability to detect and neutralize the enemy first. We delivered 46 DJI Mavic 3T drones to the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign.

These “birds,” equipped with thermal imaging cameras, are a critical tool for reconnaissance, fire adjustment, and saving the lives of soldiers.