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ukrainians he was advising outside kherson suffered from a crippling shortage of batteries needed to operate the javelins. only one battery for the launch unit had been shipped, and that battery will only run the launcher for about four hours, and it will only let you launch two to four missiles. reporter: without spare batteries, the ukrainians couldn t even train with the javelins, much less fight. hayward, a former special forces medic, had to come up with a new workaround-around. did you know how to use the javelin? not when it went in country, sir. reporter: but you had to teach them. we taught ouraselves. reporter: this sounds like a pretty fly-by-night operation. it had a strong air of we re making this up as we go along. reporter: here s what hayward nd his battle buddies made up. this shell gave us the connector we needed to route power from the motorcycle batteries to the javelin launcher. reporter: so that s what you were using as your power source, mot
this charges a javelin. what we re not seeing here are four ordinary motorcycle batteries. they would be attached to this end. the brain of the javelin missile system, the command launch unit, is supposed to be powered by a very nice, nonrechargeable paired battery system. that small green battery delivers enough power to rit fo four hours or to launch two to four missiles using that launch unit. when we got in country, the marine units that we were working with had one green battery with a clue and three missiles. that meant they could maybe use that for four hours or they could fire their missiles. they could never turn the clue on to train on with it. we had to get them some way to power it up, and we were not able anywhere in country to find more batteries.
so we built this piece of second grade work. this is my handywork and connected this to motorcycle batteries and ran some tests. it looked like it worked. so ukrainian engineers took the design and they built this and it looked like it would work. so then they took their own design and made it better and used a 3-d printer and made it resistant so there s only one way to put it together. and with crossed our fingers and took a $100,000 piece of equipment that the hus shipped over and plugged in this battery system to it. it didn t blow up. and then we had the ability to turn on the clue for training, to run it for eight to ten hours as a stand alone. and within 96 hours of us prototyping this first batteries, units that had been keeping their clues and missiles in storage were out hunting