In 2024, Ukraine overtook Russia in producing kamikaze drones similar to Iran's Shahed.
Ukraine produces its analogues of Iranian Shahed.
The Minister of Strategic Industry, Oleksandr Kamyshin, said on the telethon air that this year, Ukraine's ability to produce such drones is no longer inferior to Russia's.
According to him, Ukraine is succeeding both in the production of Shahed analogues and in the production of other strike drones.
Everything that explodes in Russia is our achievement.
Oleksandr Kamyshin
Minister for Strategic Industries
He also commented on the parameters of the identity of Ukrainian kamikaze drones with Russian-Iranian drones.
The minister noted that they are similar in terms of the amount of explosives they carry, range, and other technical parameters.
However, Kamyshin noted that the capabilities of the Ukrainian defence complex are currently twice as extensive as what Ukraine can buy.
What the budget funds are sufficient for has already been contracted. Therefore, the government is asking allies to purchase drones for Ukraine from our manufacturers.
Production of drones in Ukraine
In October 2023, during the NATO industrial forum in Stockholm, Oleksandr Kamyshin said that Ukraine plans to manufacture tens of thousands of drones monthly.
The minister did not reveal the number of drones that Ukraine now produces monthly but said it is "several thousand units."
In December 2023, at the final press conference, Zelenskyy promised that Ukraine would produce one million Ukrainian drones in the next year.
In February, within the framework of the work of the Contact Group on Defence of Ukraine, the Coalition of Drones began to work.
The co-leaders of the coalition are Latvia and Great Britain. Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and the Netherlands have joined the alliance.
