Ukraine ordered 54% more FPV attack drones this year than in all of 2025, and deliveries jumped almost fourfold
Contracting across all drone types is up about 5.5 times in recent months compared with a year earlier.
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Ukraine wants to draft 15 of every 100 workers at its weapons plants. Arms makers say this could slow guns soldiers need
You can’t just replace a skilled arms worker, makers say. It takes years to build such teams.
Ukraine, long keeping its weapons at home, now lets 18 arms makers export, approving over 90% of more than 400 applications
Ukraine’s defense output is projected at $55 billion this year, up from about $1 billion at the start of the invasion.
Proven on Ukraine’s front line, now made in Germany. National Guard signs for the Linza and Zoom drones
The German-Ukrainian venture Quantum Frontline Industries will build both systems and is scaling up as its first production year wraps up.
Ukraine says its strikes have knocked out more than 51% of Russia’s oil refining capacity
Production and procurement of Ukraine's long-range strike drones tripled this year, and the Defense Ministry plans to scale them further.
Ukrainian firm fields 11 crewless boats and eight drones at NATO’s biggest naval drone drill
UFORCE's crews acted as both attacker and defender at the REPMUS 26 drills, where Portugal's president came to inspect one of the company's boats on the dock.
Europe wants drones that actually work in war, so Ukrainian maker is moving in to build them in Belgium and Luxembourg
TAF Industries and Luxembourg's LUXUAV signed a memorandum to develop and field drones.
Robots won’t replace armored vehicles, says Ukrainian company that builds both. It reveals one job they can’t do
Ukraine ran 100,000 robot missions this year.
Ukrainian combat simulator, used to train more than 500,000 troops, can now be ordered from NATO’s supply catalogs by single code
Each trainer assigned a 13-digit NATO Stock Number.
Russia ordered arson attack on Estonian military robot-maker supplying Ukraine, Estonia confirms
Estonia says its intelligence service established that Russia’s special services ordered the August fire at Milrem Robotics, as Russian sabotage operations spreads across Europe.
Seventeen makers head to Michigan to test bomber drones for the Pentagon, and Ukrainian firms are back in field, some under US partners
Seventeen companies, including Ukrainian firms and partners fielding their drones, will test bomber drones at Camp Grayling in October.
Ukraine’s new drone ferries FPV drones deep behind Russian lines and releases them there. It costs about $9,900 and does three other jobs too
The KARA can drop bombs, relay signals, ferry FPV drones to the front, or strike, and it is on sale on Ukraine's state marketplace.
Arms makers in Ukraine sign first 26 deals in program that lets them lease equipment for 5% of cost, with state paying other 95%
The state covers all but 5% of the cost, and the first 26 deals have been signed to help producers buy equipment and expand quickly.
Defender Media: Ukraine’s battle-tested drone makers reach no top slot in Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance program, but some Ukrainian technology wins anyway
American firms took every top slot, but some Ukrainian tech won quietly under Western partners.
Ukraine’s Build with Ukraine has 200-plus foreign cooperation bids pending decision. Its arms industry, representing 400-plus firms, wants to help fix mechanism
The Council of Defence Industry wants a costly new export-permit fee scrapped.
For first time, Ukraine’s drone makers and Europe’s arms firms have joined one body: EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance
Eighteen companies aim to build drones and counter-drone systems together, folding Ukraine's combat-tested industry into Europe's.
Future wars will be won not only by those who have the best technological systems, Ukraine’s former top general says in London
Valerii Zaluzhnyi says an expensive Cold War missile has become a cheap weapon fired in bulk.
Ukrainian engine for Bars missile-drone passes final tests
This is the last major imported component of the jet-powered drone used for deep strikes against Russia.
More than 400 defense firms ask Kyiv to create one state body with real authority over $6.8 billion industry
A year after the strategic-industries ministry folded into Defense, the sector's council says responsibility is scattered across half a dozen agencies.
A masked figure got into a Polish drone-parts plant—Poland now suspects a foreign spy service set the fire
Poland has opened a foreign-intelligence and terrorism case. A masked figure got in over the fence, the fire followed, and no one is charged.