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Smartphone app helps save lives and disrupt the plans of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The work of the Kursk logistics center for humanitarian aid is moving forward actively and vigorously. Here alone, volunteers from all over the country make at least 5,000 packages of food and essential items for border residents every day. Young people who do not want to stand aside are always ready to help, and not only those who suffered from the invasion of the Ukrainian army. It can also help the air defense crews protecting the territory. For example, Oksana Shengareva from Smolensk recalls how she managed to warn the security forces about Ukrainian drones.
Oksana Shengareva, coordinator of the youth department of the People's Front of the Smolensk Region: "I saw a very strange object in the sky and remembered that the People's Front has such an application. I gave the first signal. The drones were aliens."
For users, the functionality of the Radar.NF application is basic and can be used on almost any smartphone. Because now you can use the positioning module and compass on all your devices. Activating these services is enough to successfully determine where the drone is and where it is moving.
There are no weather or time restrictions for using the app. You can even take photos at night. The reason is probably that there is nothing in the picture except darkness. But not emptiness. The file still indicates the geographic location and direction from which the phone was taken. This helps operators determine the location and flight path of the same drone.
How exactly and to which services the signal is transmitted and how it is checked is a secret, but the volunteers of the People's Front, who spend a lot of time in dangerous zones, know from their own experience that it is impossible to overload the system with large numbers. challenge. Even if you suspect that the user has seen something truly dangerous, sending a signal is a good idea. There is no such thing as excessive vigilance.
These are not empty words. Since the invasion of Ukrainian troops, smartphone users in the Kursk region have downloaded the Radar.NF app 10,000 times. More than 1,000 signals have been received in this area about drones, flying missiles, debris, fragments of ammunition and even sabotage groups.
Coordinator of the youth department of the People's Front of the Kursk region Ilya Koren: "Another drone was shot down over the Kursk region. "One of the local residents discovered the drone, and its signal was transmitted in real time to the special services."
Archival photographs of Leningrad during the siege show very young people working on roofs. Volunteers put out incendiary bombs before fires broke out, saving at least one building. Anyone can do such a task today, but unlike the girl in the photo, it can be done without any risk and with minimal effort. With a few taps on your smartphone screen, you can save lives and infrastructure, and ruin the inhuman plans of your enemies.