This year, the Ministry of Defense has already allowed more than 80 new UAVs with a fiber-optic control channel and 25 interceptor drones to enter service in the Defense Forces.
This year, the Ministry of Defense has already allowed more than 80 new UAVs with a fiber-optic control channel and 25 interceptor drones to enter service in the Defense Forces.
The Ministry of Defense noted that all these drones were produced in Ukraine.
«The Ministry of Defense is focusing more efforts and resources on the development and production of effective means of destruction, which are critically needed today. This includes, in particular, UAVs with a fiber-optic control channel and drones that intercept enemy reconnaissance and strike drones,» said First Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Ivan Havrylyuk.
The department noted that mass production of fiber-optic drones began in 2025. Currently, fiber-optic UAVs have different designs, can carry different combat loads, and hit enemy targets at different depths of the front.
Let us recall that 3DTech became the first Ukrainian developer to complete the codification procedure for the line of fiber-optic unmanned aerial systems «Predator REBOFF» at the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This happened in May 2025.
In July, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov reported that Ukrainian manufacturers of fiber-optic drones had created FPV drones with a range of over 40 km.
