#FPV Drone

The production of FPV loitering munition drones is skyrocketing—for good reason. Ukraine is now manufacturing around 200,000 FPV drones per month, a tenfold increase from early 2024. These inexpensive, highly maneuverable weapons are proving to be tank killers, taking out multimillion-dollar armored vehicles for a fraction of their cost.

Over the past three years of war, Ukraine has achieved significant technological breakthroughs in drone development. UNITED24 Media looks back at the evolution of drone technology and its impact on the battlefield.

FPV drones aren’t just surveillance tools—they dictate movement, stall offensives, and turn the battlefield into a gridlocked stalemate. Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine has become a high-stakes chess match, where both sides are under the constant watch of unmanned aircraft. With electronic warfare unable to stop every threat, both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers have turned to a more direct solution—shotguns—as a last-ditch defense against drones making a rapid descent toward their positions.