Ukraine launches serial production of Shahed drone analogue

Ukraine launched serial production of a long-range kamikaze drone similar to the Shahed drone used by Russia in August 2023.

Source: Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries of Ukraine, at a press conference

Quote: "Ukraine has had some developments that have not been released for some reason since 2016. Now we have launched serial production. We are manufacturing dozens of these drones. Next year, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to receive more than a thousand such drones that fly a distance of 1,000+ km."

Details: Kamyshin stressed that at the moment, the defence industry of Ukraine is able to produce dozens of such kamikaze drones but will keep increasing the scale.

He also confirmed the statement of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the defence-industrial complex of Ukraine may produce a million FPV drones.

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