{"id":1255590,"date":"2025-07-03T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-to-launch-joint-production-of-drones-for-the-front-and-air-defense-with-the-us\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T03:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:36:03","slug":"ukraine-to-launch-joint-production-of-drones-for-the-front-and-air-defense-with-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-to-launch-joint-production-of-drones-for-the-front-and-air-defense-with-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, US to Co-Produce Combat and Air Defence Drones in Strategic Tech Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine signs deal with swift beat to mass-produce combat and interceptor drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/14949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was announced by<\/a> the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"233\">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that his visit to Denmark began with a key development for Ukraine\u2019s defense sector \u2014 the signing of a Ukrainian-American agreement on drone production, with a particular focus on interceptors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"235\" data-end=\"446\">The agreement, concluded with the U.S. company <em data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"294\">Swift Beat<\/em>, paves the way for the joint manufacture of hundreds of thousands of drones starting in 2025. Production is expected to scale up significantly in 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"716\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cThis includes interceptors to destroy enemy drones and missiles, quadcopters for reconnaissance and fire correction, and long-range strike drones. We will produce far more of all of this \u2014 to fulfill our defense objectives and protect Ukrainian lives,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"716\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\nThe Ministry of Defense also <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/ministry_of_defense_ua\/13076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> that the agreement provides for:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>long-term partnership and priority supply of drones to Ukraine;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>large-scale production of interceptor drones, quadcopters and strike systems;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>development of new solutions to counter cruise and ballistic missiles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that the Ukrainian group <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dyki-shershni-zletily-u-stratosferu-v-ukraini-z-iavyvsia-dron-iakyy-pratsiuie-na-vysoti-11-km\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Wild Hornets&#8221; has developed an interceptor drone capable of flying at an altitude of 11 kilometers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine showed <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/liutyy-bober-ta-inshi-u-hur-pokazaly-drony-iakymy-b-iut-po-rosii-ta-rozkryly-niuansy-pidhotovky-do-tsykh-spetsoperatsiy\/\">what drones the Ukrainian military uses to attack military facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation that are located at great distances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine signs deal with swift beat to mass-produce combat and interceptor drones. This was announced by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that his visit to Denmark began with a key development for Ukraine\u2019s defense sector \u2014 the signing of a Ukrainian-American agreement on drone production, with a particular focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1255586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76878,76892],"class_list":["post-1255590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-society","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255750,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255590\/revisions\/1255750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}