Russia, with support from China, plans to produce two million FPV drones in 2025 – intelligence
Фото: Reuters
Russia plans to produce up to two million FPV drones by 2025. In addition, Russia wants to produce 30,000 long-range drones and another 30,000 decoy drones designed to exhaust Ukraine’s air defense system.
This was stated by the representative of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Oleg Aleksandrov, to POLITICO.
It is noted that Russia is catching up with Ukraine in drone production thanks to greater financial resources, production lines located far from the front lines, and especially assistance from China.
“Chinese manufacturers supply them with equipment, electronics, navigation, optical and telemetry systems, engines, microcircuits, processor modules, antenna field systems, control boards, navigation. They use so-called shell companies, change names, do everything to avoid export control and avoid sanctions for their activities. However, officially China complies with all the rules,” the Ukrainian official said.
According to the senior official, Russia is critically dependent on Chinese supplies of spare parts for both tactical and long-range drones.
This allows Russia to undermine Ukraine’s leadership in drone technology and production.
According to Alexandrov, Russia has managed to increase production of long-range drones from 15,000 in 2024 to over 30,000 this year, as well as to two million small tactical drones.
Russia is also increasing its use of fiber-optic drones, which are immune to electronic warfare. Ukrainian forces were previously able to detect conventional Russian drones as soon as they took to the skies, but this is much more difficult with fiber-optic drones.
As a reminder, Russia is building a new large explosives production plant in Siberia to supply its troops.
As reported, China continues to be a key factor in Russia’s war in Ukraine and that without China’s support, Russia would not have been able to wage a war on the same scale.
By the way, the administration of US President Donald has redirected key anti-drone technology intended for Ukraine to the American military , reflecting the Pentagon’s reduced commitment to defending Kyiv. Ukraine has been using these special missile detonators to shoot down Russian drones.
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