GEON E61 System’s Arrival in Ukraine Marks Important Moment in its History
Personnel in Ukraine confirmed in the first week of May that a GEON E61 drone/metal-detecting system shipped from Germany had been received and assembled and was performing well.
The drone will figure in important work planned by ArroTech in what is proving to be a year of great progress for the GEON E61’s developer.
Planned is a series of demonstration flights that will take place in minefields near Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv. Audiences are to include businesses related to demining and aerospace, nonprofits engaged in efforts to rid Ukraine of landmines and unexploded ordnance and officials with the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU).
Of late, ArroTech has learned valuable lessons in how to best carry out the shipping of drones from Germany to Ukraine. Another unit could be delivered to Ukraine within a couple of weeks.
ArroTech’s work with officials and other stakeholders in Ukraine began two years ago, notes ArroTech co-founder and chief technical officer Tobias Leininger. Twice previously, drones were delivered to Ukraine. Already, the GEON E61 has flawlessly completed tests conducted by SESU and the International Peacekeeping and Security Center and has scanned agricultural acreages in Ukraine.
The current activity near Kharkiv is leading up to the onset of scanning services that ArroTech will supply to customers in Ukraine. In that war-torn nation, word of the drone’s arrival and its capabilities will rate good news that is sure to travel fast.
As the world’s only fully autonomous metal-detecting drone using pulse induction technology, the GEON E61 is a marvel versus the tortuously slow handheld and cart-mounted approaches that have traditionally been used in Ukraine.
In recent months, ArroTech’s GEON E61 project has proceeded from its research, development and fine-tuning stages to manufacturing, sales and distribution phases. A manufacturing facility has been established and equipped in Germany. Inquiries about the GEON 61 are picking up and have been received recently from Peru, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
