A Ukrainian manufacturer of electronic warfare technology has invested $500,000 in a unique anti-drone technology with AI. Since early 2024, the Kvertus company has been developing EW systems that will operate noiselessly and will be able to plant AI-enhanced drones. Currently, Russian drones with machine vision are not ... #ArtificialIntelligence #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #ElectronicWarfareTechnology #Kvertus #WeaponsExport #WeaponsProduction
Ukraine is working on the possibility of weapons exportation. Ukraine has created a working group that will deal with the development of a mechanism for exporting military equipment from domestic factories. Technological Forces of Ukraine, a MilTech association,... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #TechnologicalForcesUkraine #UkraineWeaponSales #WeaponsExport
What is required for US defense companies to operate in Ukraine? Several US defense companies are considering starting joint production with Ukrainian enterprises inside Ukraine. The Pentagon is actively encouraging US defense contractors to engage in this cooperat... #AmmunitionFactory #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #NorthropGrumman #Pentagon #WeaponsProduction
Ukraine is discussing a security agreement with Ireland, and Romania plans to join the development of the Ukrainian Neptune missile. Representatives from Ukraine and Ireland held negotiations to conclude a bilateral security agreement and develop bilateral cooperation. Ukraine has already signed 25 such bilateral documents, as well... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #Ireland #NeptuneMissiles #Romania #SecurityAgreement #UkraineCompact
Ukraine can produce three million UAVs per year, and Brave1 will focus on supporting the missile program. Ukraine has sufficient production capacity to make more than three million drones every year if sufficient funding is in place, Deputy Minister of Industry Anna Gvozdyar said at the Precision Brave1 h... #Brave1 #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DroneProduction #MykhailoFedorov
Pritzker names the most attractive sectors of the Ukrainian economy for investors. Penny Pritzker, the US special representative, answered a question about the economic sectors that are ready for investment now: “Ukraine’s agriculture feeds 400 million people in the worl... #agroUkraine #DefenseIndustryUkraine #ForeignInvestor #InvestmentsinUkraine #PennyPritzker #UkraineEconomy #UkraineTechnology
A Ukrainian company has invested $3.5M in the production of UAVs in Slovakia. Oleksandr Stepura, the founder of Skyeton, which manufactures ACS-3 (Raybird-3) reconnaissance systems, said that Raybird drones began to be manufactured in Slovakia this spring. The Raybird has been ... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #DroneProduction #Raybird3 #Skyeton #Slovakia
Boeing and Antonov signed a preliminary agreement to cooperate in the production of drones. The American Boeing Corporation and the Ukrainian company, Antonov, signed a preliminary joint work agreement for the production of unmanned systems to support Ukraine’s defense industry. The me... #ANTONOV #Boeing #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DroneProduction #ScanEagle
The Ministry of Defense explained where the additional almost ₴500B from the state budget will be allocated. In a draft law on increasing state budget expenditures in 2024 approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, which the parliament must approve, financial support for the security and defense sector is expecte... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseSpending #UkraineBudget2024 #WarinUkraine
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense wants domestic companies to be able to export weapons; otherwise, they will move abroad. Director of the Defense Procurement Agency of the Ministry of Defense, Maryna Bezrukova, believes that Ukrainian companies should be able to export a portion of the weapons they produce. She confirmed... #BohdanaSPG #DefenseIndustryUkraine #UkrainianWeapons #WeaponsExport #WeaponsProduction #Zelenskyy
The Drone Coalition members created a special €45M fund, Denmark will buy Ukrainian howitzers, and Ukraine will produce NATO ammunition with the US. The member countries of the Drone Coalition have created a special fund for rapid joint procurement of UAVs for Ukraine. The Netherlands, Britain, Latvia, New Zealand, and Sweden, which joined the coa... #BohdanaSPG #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DronesCoalition #FPVdrones #ukroboronprom #Zelenskyy
Ukraine’s defense industry is moving from receiving Western aid to joint production. The Minister of Strategic Industry of Ukraine noted that the path of the Ukrainian defense industry, in general, is integration with Western partners into their production ecosystem. Ukraine is develo... #AlexanderKamyshin #DefenseIndustryUkraine #JensStoltenberg #NATO #ukroboronprom #Washington
The Czech Republic launches the production of drones for Ukraine. The Czech-Ukrainian company, UAC, near Kolin, began producing military drones exclusively for the Ukrainian army. The company plans to make hundreds of surveillance and attack drones every year. The m... #CzechRepublic #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DroneProduction #NATO #UAC
Ukraine has increased the production of weapons and wants its partners to buy them from domestic manufacturers. According to the State Statistics Service, in January-March, the production of weapons in Ukraine increased by an average of 25.4% compared to the same period last year. Thus, in January, Ukraine prod... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #Lithuania #PetroBeshta #WarinUkraine #WeaponsProduction
Denmark provides another $170M to support Ukrainian arms manufacturers, allowing them to cover the military’s urgent needs quickly. Denmark will make a second, DKK 1.2B ($170M) contribution within the framework of the ZBROYARI: Manufacturing Freedom initiative, Minister of Strategic Industry Oleksandr Kamyshin said. According to t... #AlexanderKamyshin #DefenseIndustryUkraine #Denmark #F16 #WeaponsProduction #ZBROYARI
American defense giant Northrop Grumman will launch ammunition production in Ukraine. The American defense corporation Northrop Grumman plans to create production facilities for medium-caliber ammunition in Ukraine. This results from a state-funded Ukrainian government project and appr... #AmmunitionFactory #ArtilleryShells #DefenseIndustryUkraine #NorthropGrumman #WeaponsProduction
Rheinmetall wants to produce a hybrid tank and anti-aircraft defense in Ukraine to increase the air defense effectiveness for ground forces. According to Bild, Rheinmetall has integrated a 35mm Skyranger short range air defense turret onto a Leopard tank chassis, rather than the original Skynex mobile, modular anti-aircraft artillery syste... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #LeopardBattleTanks #Marder #Rheinmetall #SkyRanger #WeaponsProduction
Historic moment: what did Ukraine and the US agree on within the 10-year security agreement? Kyiv and Washington signed a bilateral security agreement in which the US undertakes long-term commitments aimed at supporting Ukraine’s efforts to win the war and deter possible military aggres... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATO #SecurityAgreement #SupportUkraine
Denmark will be the first NATO country to invest in the production of Ukrainian weapons; with the Netherlands, Ukraine will finance domestic defense companies. The head of the Ministry of Defense, Rustem Umerov, announced that Denmark will invest in the production of weapons in Ukraine during a meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine in the Ramste... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #KajsaOllongren #Ramstein #RustemUmerov #TroelsLundPoulsen #WeaponsProduction
The newly created Finnish-Ukrainian venture fund, Double Tap, will invest in Ukrainian defense startups. The Finnish-Ukrainian investment company Double Tap Investments announced a decision to invest in Ukrainian defense technology startups. Double Tap Investments is an investment company based in Finlan... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseStartups #DoubleTapInvestments #Finland
A Canadian manufacturer of armored vehicles is investing tens of millions of dollars in a new Ukrainian enterprise. According to Roman Shimonov, CEO of the Canadian Roshel company, the decision to open a company in Ukraine has already been made. The company expects to invest “tens of millions of dollars”... #armoredvehicles #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseInvestments #Roshel #SenatorArmoredVehicles
Sweden will provide Ukraine with €6.5B under a security agreement and consider transferring Gripen aircraft. A security agreement signed on May 31 between Ukraine and Sweden will provide Kyiv with SEK 75B (€6.5B) in military aid, and it also stipulates the prospect of transferring JAS 39 Gripen aircraft to U... #ASC890 #DefenseIndustryUkraine #GripenAircraft #SecurityAgreement #SupportUkraine #Sweden #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Ukrainian munitions manufacturers will achieve a 25% profit, and France’s €200M grant will be used for defense needs. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that the government has approved a resolution establishing a profit margin of up to 25% of their cost for domestic ammunition manufacturers. He noted the success... #ArtilleryShells #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DenysShmyhal #France #WeaponsProduction
Ukrainian defense enterprises are eligible to receive up to ₴2M in grant funds for new military projects. Ukrainian military equipment and defense system developers can now apply for grants of ₴500,000, ₴1M, or even ₴2M to implement their initiatives. Funding will be provided through the Brave1 grant prog... #Brave1 #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseStartups #GrantsForStartups #WeaponsProduction
How do forced power outages affect the Ukrainian military industry? Power outages in Ukraine caused by Russian shelling not only create discomfort for the civilian population but also complicate the production of weapons, writes the New York Times. This slows producti... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #ElectricityDeficitUkraine #energyukraine #Ukrenergo
The Brave1 defense cluster has united 1,600 developments from 1,000 Ukrainian manufacturers and provided $3M in grants. The Brave1 defense technology cluster, created a year ago, has significantly accelerated the appearance of new technology at the front, the Ministry of Digital Transformation reported. The clusterR... #Brave1 #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseInvestments #DefenseTechnology #NatalyaKushnerska #WeaponsProduction
Denmark provides Ukraine with €750M in military aid for air defense, artillery, investments in military defense, and the transfer of F16s. The Danish government provided Ukraine with a DKK 5.6B (€750M) military aid package, with half of this amount used to strengthen Ukrainian air defense. This support from Denmark also includes maintena... #AirDefenseSystems #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DenmarkSupportUkraine #F16 #LarsLückeRasmussen #MilitaryAidforUkraine #TroelsLundPoulsen
The US announces $2B in aid for investments in the Ukrainian defense industry and is preparing to sign a security agreement. The US will allocate an additional $2B in military funding to Ukraine, State Secretary Antony Blinken said at a briefing with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv. Blinken noted that suppo... #AnthonyBlinken #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DmytroKuleba #SecurityAgreement #SupportUkraine #USmilitaryAid
Ukraine has built an underground network of weapon factories; Magura drones have caused $500M in losses to the Russian fleet. The Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine has built a classified network of underground factories to produce weapons, and defense enterprises were moved underground due to large-scale destructio... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #MaguraV5 #NeptuneMissiles #Stugna #UkrainianWeapons #WeaponsProduction
Ukraine has proposed three initiatives to attract EU funds to strengthen its defense industry. Minister of Strategic Industry Oleksandr Kamyshin said that Ukraine seeks to attract additional funds from the EU to strengthen its arms industry and implement additional production facilities unrelat... #AlexanderKamyshin #DefenseIndustryUkraine #EDIP #EuropeanPeaceFund #RussianAssetsProfits #WeaponsProduction
Foreign investors in Ukraine are most interested in the defense sector, which has export potential. Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko said foreign investors are most interested in developing the Ukrainian defense industry. “Because everyone understands that Ukraine is a great field for test... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseInvestments #InvestmentsinUkraine #RobertaMetsola #YuliyaSvyridenko
Ukraine has equaled Russia’s ability to manufacture Shahed drone analogs. General Director of Ukroboronprom Herman Smetanin stated: “In 2024, Ukraine will catch up with the Russian Federation in the production of kamikaze drones similar to the Shahed-131 and Shahed-13... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DroneProduction #HermanSmetanin #KamikazeDrones #ukroboronprom
Ukraine will produce ammunition according to NATO standards and can produce $10 billion more worth of additional weapons this year. Ukroboronprom enterprises are gradually switching to the production of ammunition in NATO calibers, particularly 60-mm mortar mines, General Director of the Ukrainian Defense Industry Herman Smetanin ... #AlexanderKamyshin #AmmunitionFactory #DefenseIndustryUkraine #HermanSmetanin #NATOstandards #ukroboronprom #WeaponsProduction
The EU will buy weapons for Ukraine’s military from Ukrainian manufacturers. EU states will purchase weapons for the Defense Forces of Ukraine from Ukrainian manufacturers through the European Peace Facility, said Minister of Strategic Industry Oleksandr Kamyshin after the Ukr... #AlexanderKamyshin #DefenseIndustryUkraine #EDIP #EuropeanPeaceFund #Kosovo #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
How Ukraine’s military economy will grow: the government’s forecast. Despite the war, the Ukrainian economy will grow by approximately 4.6% in 2024, although Russian missile attacks may worsen this indicator, said Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko at the Kyiv Invest... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #GDPinUkraine #UkraineDevelopment #UkraineEconomicForecast #UkraineEconomy #YuliyaSvyridenko
Ukraine is increasing long-range drone production to 500 units per month, and the state is increasing funding by ₴15.5B. Ukraine is increasing its production of long-range drones, which should help the Armed Forces bypass restrictions on the use of weapons obtained from Western countries for strikes on Russian territory... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DroneProduction #UkrainianDrone #UkrainianWeapons #WarinUkraine
Ukraine will direct $1.6B of US funds for the purchase of domestic weapons and will order hundreds of German Vector UAVs. As reported by the parliamentary committee on foreign policy, of the planned $60.8B in aid to Ukraine allocated by the US, $1.6B is planned to be spent on purchasing Ukrainian-produced weapons. Consid... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #QuantumSystems #USmilitaryAid #VectorDrones #WeaponsUkraine
The drone coalition has collected almost €500M for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and Ukraine is seeking foreign customers for its domestic defense industry. The Latvian-initiated drone coalition has raised almost €500M to purchase drones for the military. Denmark and the Netherlands announced a €400M joint drone purchase, Canada – €70M, Latvia ̵... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DroneProduction #DronesCoalition #dronestoUkraine
A German company will open a second defense plant in Ukraine, and the Netherlands is allocating €200M for air defense and artillery shells. German UAV manufacturer Quantum-Systems will open a second drone production facility in Ukraine with a capacity of up to 1,000 UAVs per year, including the production of spare parts. The manufacturer ... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DroneProduction #MilitaryAidforUkraine #QuantumSystems #WarinUkraine
Ukraine has increased its production of Bohdana self-propelled guns to 10 per month. This signals that the Ukrainian defense industry is ready to enter foreign markets. In April, the Ukrainian defense industry will produce 10 self-propelled Bohdana artillery systems for the first time, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “The share of our own production is cons... #BohdanaSPG #DefenseIndustryUkraine #TarasChmut #WeaponsProduction #Zelenskyy
Ukraine has only $6B of budget funds for defense purchases. In 2024, Ukraine has $6B to purchase weapons, particularly from domestic manufacturers, said Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries. As he clarified, the entire defense budget for the cu... #AlexanderKamyshin #DefenseIndustryUkraine #UkraineDefensePurchases #WeaponsforUkraine #WeaponsUkraine
Ukraine launches an accelerator for military startups. The Defence Builder Accelerator program was launched for startups that are interested in creating innovative solutions with military applications and who are also ready to develop projects at the mili... #DefenceBuilderAccelerator #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseStartups #DefenseTechnology #investments
American investors are interested in Ukraine’s defense, but there are conditions. Ukraine has a good chance of attracting investment from the US and other developed countries. These processes have already begun and are actively continuing, said Vladyslav Belbas, general director of... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseInvestments #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineMilitaryIndustry #UkrainianArmoredVehicles #VladyslavBelbas
Ukraine is massively increasing its weapons production to fight back against Russia. Ukraine needs every advantage to repel Russia from its territory, and one such factor is the small but fast-growing Ukrainian defense industry, into which the government is pouring money. These effort... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #WarinUkraine #WeaponsProduction
Kyiv plans to build a cutting-edge defense enterprise to produce drones. A facility will be built in the Ukrainian capital – a utility company that will be subordinate to the Kyiv City Administration and be engaged in drone production. The company’s authorized ... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #DroneProduction #KyivInvestment
The government is simultaneously preparing two new financial support mechanisms for Ukrainian arms manufacturers. Ukraine’s military-industrial complex currently consists of 500 defense companies, 80% of which are private. Before the full-scale war began, private companies occupied 20% of the market. In 2023, Ukr... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #oschadbank #UkraineMilitaryIndustry
Ukraine is calling on its Western allies to finance its domestic arms production. According to the FT, Kyiv’s recently increased production capacity significantly exceeds the funds available to place orders. “The fastest way to start production is to do it in Ukraine. We are ... #AlexanderKamyshin #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DroneProduction #UkrainianDrone #WeaponsProduction
France is planning joint production of weapons with Ukraine and could send its army to Ukraine, but only under certain conditions. The Minister of Defense of France, Sebastien Lecornu, said that strategic partnerships are being prepared between French and Ukrainian defense enterprises to facilitate cooperation in the production o... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #Delair #EmmanuelMacron #FranceMilitaryAid #NATOsoldiers #NexterKNDS #SébastienLecornu #WarinUkraine
What will the EU’s new defense and industrial strategy give Ukraine? Integration and support of the Ukrainian defense industry have become one of the goals of the European Defense Industrial Strategy (EDIS). As reported by the Ministry of Strategic Industries, the stra... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #EDIP #EUdefense
Ukraine will open five joint defense enterprises with Western manufacturers. According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, “We are cooperating very fruitfully with the leaders of the world’s arms production. We can already talk about five signed contracts and five joi... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DenysShmyhal #Rheinmetall #WeaponsProduction
