Industry Minister: Ukraine on Track to Make 1M Drones in 2024

The country has already produced 50,000 drones so far this month, according to the country's strategic industries minister.

Kimberly Johnson

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 05:58 PM ET

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Drone operators from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade known as Black Ravens. [Courtesy: Ukraine Ministry of Defense]

Key Takeaways:

Ukraine aims to produce at least one million FPV military drones in 2024, in addition to over 10,000 medium-range and more than 1,000 long-range attack drones.
This significant increase in drone production capacity follows December's output of over 50,000 FPV drones, with all capacities ready for 2024 contracting.
Russia is actively developing space communication systems to serve as control hubs for its drone use, believing space-based systems are essential for managing large drone constellations or "swarms."
Russian officials consider ground-based infrastructure futile for controlling future drone swarms, emphasizing the criticality of a space-control segment.

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Ukraine is on track to make at least a million first-person-view (FPV) military drones in the year ahead, according to a top government official.

In addition to the FPV drones, the country has plans to make more than 10,000 medium-range and more than 1,000 long-range attack drones in 2024, Oleksandr Kamyshin, the Ukrainian minister of strategic industries who oversees the nation’s defense industry, said Wednesday.