The Defense Procurement Agency (DPA) has contracted tens of thousands of interceptor drones, also known as "drone killers".
This was stated by the head of DPA Arsen Zhumadilov in an interview with Babel.
"Tens of thousands. This is what we have already contracted, and we will continue to contract. Our contracting now, on the one hand, rests on the manufacturerʼs capacity, and on the other hand, on the capacity of the state budget. We will definitely contract everything that the state budget is capable of," he noted.
Zhumadilov added that if the manufacturer is able to produce more drones than have already been contracted, DPA will contract them either according to the Danish model or directly with partner countries so that these drones can be transferred to us as international technical assistance.
- As of mid-July, the amount of contracts signed by DPA for the supply of drones reached 118 billion hryvnias. This is more than a third of the agencyʼs total budget for 2025.
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