PD-2 UAV Tested for Organ Delivery by Heart Institute
Drones can do a lot: track, recon, adjust fire - and, let’s be honest, kill effectively. But in recent tests, we proved they can also save lives.
For this news, the official headline reads: “The Heart Institute of the Ministry of health of Ukraine tested the PD-2 UAV for transporting transplant organs.” In practice, this means PD-2 could take on one of the most critical steps in transplantation: delivering donor organs to hospitals.
Usually, that delivery is a race against time - bad roads, traffic jams, high speeds, and constant pressure. A UAV eliminates most of those problems. With vertical take-off and landing, PD-2 can operate almost anywhere. Its 800 km range means even remote corners of Ukraine are within reach, and traffic never gets in the way.
Organs are carried in a special thermal container designed by the Heart Institute. During tests, a pig’s heart was flown for four hours, after which a full biomedical analysis confirmed the organ remained viable. The results showed PD-2 can transport organs safely.
Professor Borys Todurov, Director of the Heart Institute, put it simply:
“We are confident this method can be used to transport human hearts. Military technology has become so advanced, safe, and precise that we realized: drones are the future.”
And this isn’t the first time. Some of you may remember: even before the full-scale invasion, PD-2 carried out transport missions - like flying from Kyiv to Lviv with Nova Poshta cargo.
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