United to win: young American genius launches multi-million-dollar business, delivers drones to Ukraine's armed forces
Блейк Резнік передав дрони Lemur ЗСУ. Фото: скриншот відео
The young American Blake Resnick and his startup Brinc have been helping Ukrainians since March 2022. Lemur drones have become helpful for both US special forces and defenders of Ukraine.
The AIN.ua website shared the businessman's story.
What is the problem?
As of today, the needs of the Defense Forces of Ukraine are measured by hundreds of thousands of UAVs of various modifications. This is about adjusting the artillery, and about the task of defeating the enemy (strike drones), and about the delivery of ammunition, evacuation of the wounded, etc.
What is the solution?
A young businessman from the USA, Blake Resnick, founded the successful company Brinc in the USA, which supplies the Ukrainian army with advanced Lemur drones.
How does it work?
At the age of 14, Blake Resnick enrolled in engineering at the University of Nevada but soon dropped out to intern at DJI and Tesla. In 2017, when he turned 18, the young man founded his own company called Brinc Drones, and in 2020 he received a $100,000 prize from Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, who helps business people who dropped out of school to start their own businesses.
To date, Brinc Drones is one of the largest manufacturers of UAVs in the United States, which is valued at $300 million. The company, led by Blake Resnick, supplies its drones to more than 7,000 teams of the special SWAT unit and the New York police. It offers the Lemur 2 UAV for $90,000, which includes updates for five years, as well as the BrincBall emergency communications tool.
Lemurs are equipped with lidar, which allows them to navigate in space and around glass windows, as well as a camera and a speaker to transmit voice messages. During one special operation, the suspect asked for a cigarette delivered to him along with a lighter by UAV.
Back in March 2022, Brinc handed over a batch of such drones to Ukraine's armed forces worth $150,000. Since then, Brinc has been producing more and more drones and selling them to NATO organizations, which, in turn, supply them for Ukraine's needs. The Ukrainian military uses Lemur for reconnaissance, as well as for search and rescue operations.
Blake Resnick told Commercial UAV News that he initially encountered significant problems when sending drones. Last spring, Brink was going to transport the UAV to Germany, from there to Poland, and later to Ukraine. However, the German authorities refused to let the cargo through and damaged some equipment. Later, the company found another route and could still hand over the aircraft to the Ukrainians.
"One of the areas we are working on is supplying them with spare parts and teaching them how to repair batteries to make them work. Another area is getting more orders from NATO countries to help Ukraine," Reznik shared.
For reference:
Earlier, the mass media reported that Ukraine's armed forces began using Switchblade 600 kamikaze drones, which were transferred from the United States. They have a warhead weighing 22.7 kg, as well as high-end cameras for finding targets.
