The State Border Guard Service’s Phoenix Unmanned Systems Unit has created an infrastructure that provides the unit with everything it needs to fly.

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine shared that in 10 months of 2024, the pilots of the Phoenix unit have already struck more than a thousand Russian soldiers.

Currently, it is part of the Revenge Assault Brigade of the Offensive Guard and is performing tasks in three areas: Bakhmut, Siversk, and Kupiansk.

Dmytro Oleksiuk, commander of Phoenix, stated that drones destroy 90 percent of the targets in their areas of operations.

“The border guards’ infantry strikes only a small number of Russian soldiers,” the SBGS officials explained.

To ensure such performance, the unit had to develop an infrastructure that provided the unit with everything it needed.

In the unit’s warehouses, you can see hundreds of munitions: fragmentation, shaped charge, high-explosive, incendiary, and mines.

All of them are developed in the Phoenix unit’s laboratory, where conventional ammunition is converted into aviation ammunition or manufactured from scratch.

The laboratory produces more than a hundred munitions a day.

The unit prepares separate ammunition for each type of drone based on the technical characteristics of each drone.

Incendiary munitions are made on-site. They are designed to be dropped on enemy fortifications.

The laboratory has also adapted PTAB-2.5 aircraft bombs for dropping from UAVs.

High-explosive ammunition for drones is also produced in the laboratory. To do this, the soldiers press plastic explosives to which hexogen and a classified substance are added.

The Phoenix unit has also deployed training facilities where pilots are trained on FPV drone simulators and in real conditions on improvised training grounds.

“There are also separate laboratories where sappers make ammunition, workshops, and 3D printers print parts for boards and other equipment, places for drone repair, and training classes for pilots,” the unit representatives shared.

In June, border guards of the Pomsta Brigade, in cooperation with other units of the Defense Forces, used drones to stop the entire armored convoy of the invaders in the Bakhmut direction, which also included a modern Russian T-90M tank.