In 2025, over UAH 44 billion will be channeled on the purchase of FPV drones, including fiber-optic.
This was announced by the Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"Ensuring technological superiority over the enemy is one of the key tasks for 2025. If last year the main financial resource was channeled to the purchase of long-range deepstrikes, then this year over UAH 44 billion are planned for the purchase of FPV, including fiber-optic models," said Hlib Kanevskyi, director of the procurement policy department of the Ministry of Defense.
The Ministry of Defense presented plans for the purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles for 2025 during a meeting with representatives of the Technological Forces of Ukraine union - an association of leading manufacturers of innovative weapons for defense needs.
The participants of the event discussed the issues of scaling up the production and supply of unmanned systems for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as simplifying bureaucratic procedures, which will allow for a more efficient integration of new drone models into the troops.
The participants of the meeting paid special attention to reducing the delivery time of drones from production to combat units, as well as expanding the range of suppliers and manufacturers of defense products.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in early January, the Ministry of Defense announced that FPV drones controlled via fiber-optic cable will soon begin to be supplied to the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
At the end of December, the head of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, stated that the occupiers began to massively use UAVs with a cable at the front, which creates a big problem in the context of the drone war. These are drones to which a coil with a fiber-optic cable is attached, which makes it impossible to suppress the drone using electronic warfare means, since the communication between the device and the operator is not carried out via a radio channel, but directly via a wire.
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