The Ministry of Defense will acquire UAVs for 20 billion UAH in 2023

13 January, 2023 Modernized SHARK UAV from the Ukrspecsystems. Photo credits: Ukrspecsystems The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine plans to spend UAH 20 billion on drone purchases in 2023.

According to Oleksii Reznikov, Defense Minister, these sum will be spent on various types of drones: aerial, ground, surface, and underwater. The list of unmanned vehicles also includes samples manufactured by the Ukrainian defense industry, as stated by the minister in his interviews with the UNN news agency. "This year, we planned UAH 20 billion in the budget for the purchase of drones.

These are UAVs of different types. These, in particular, are the Ukrainian samples that we have adopted over the past half of the year - these are our new drones," the minister said. In particular, those domestically manufactured unmanned aircraft systems are the Leleka-100, ?1-SM Furia, Windhover, PD-2, ACS-3.

All of them went in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.