Ukraine says cheap drones now inflict most Russian battlefield losses. How many drones did its factories build for the army in 2025?

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Ukrainian factories built 3 million FPV drones for the army in 2025, about 8,000 a day and nearly 2.5 times the 2024 total. Almost all were contracted straight from domestic manufacturers. Pilots fly them through video goggles into tanks, trucks and trenches. The army also employed almost 15,000 ground robots, triple the number a year earlier.

Ukraine's factories could have built far more. The country's security council says the industry can turn out more than 8 million FPV drones a year across more than 160 companies, and officials say funding rather than factory capacity is what holds deliveries below that.

Cheap drones now inflict most Russian battlefield losses, Ukraine says. Its factories built 3 million of them in 2025.

Source: Ukraine Ministry of Defense (Shmyhal, Telegram, Dec 2025); National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (Results of Ukraine's Defense Industry in 2025) · checked Dec 2025