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Ukraine’s Homegrown Drone Industry Reaches 95% of Military Procurement
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Ukrainian-made systems account for 95% of all unmanned aerial vehicles procured for the country's Defense Forces.
This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on its official website on June 22, citing data from the Defense Procurement Agency (DOT), which handles unmanned-systems purchases for frontline units.
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The ministry noted that procurement of unmanned systems overtook ammunition spending for the first time last year, a shift it expects to continue. Officials credited the DOT-Chain Defense marketplace, which lets service members from combat brigades make purchasing decisions directly, with driving much of that growth.
The agency has restructured how the military buys drones, the ministry explained, generating demand automatically from battlefield data to remove human intervention, subjective influence, and corruption risks.
At the request of individual units, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine compiles procurement lists based solely on technical specifications, without brand names or named manufacturers.
The ranking combines combat performance data from several military digital platforms: ePoints, which rewards verified battlefield results; DOT-Chain Defense; Brave1 Market, Ukraine’s defense technology marketplace; DELTA, the military’s battlefield awareness system; and Mission Control, which tracks drone missions and operational effectiveness.
Officials emphasized that the model rests on a straightforward principle: the military chooses its equipment, and the state finances and delivers it. In less than five months of 2026, units have received 485,000 unmanned aerial vehicles and other equipment through DOT-Chain Defense, the agency reported.
The Defense Procurement Agency DOT manages contracting, payments, and delivery oversight across a fully digital process that, on average, moves an in-stock order to a unit within nine days. The platform is also integrated with Brave1 Market, letting units order additional drones using ePoints under the Army of Drones Bonus program.
The surge in domestically built systems reflects a broader expansion of Ukraine's drone manufacturing base, which has scaled output dramatically during the war.
A single Ukrainian producer has set plans to build more than 3 million units in 2026, a volume that dwarfs the roughly 300,000 first-person-view drones the US manufactured in 2025.
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