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The Ukrainian defense-industrial complex at the end of 2025 year had production capabilities of about 35 billion dollars per year, but available financing covered no more than a third of this potential.
According to estimates, by the end of 2026 year the production capacity of Ukraine’s defense industry could grow to 60 billion dollars per year. At the same time, more than 35 billion dollars could be allocated to the production of long-range weapons. The gap between production capabilities and state orders is especially pronounced in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) segment. Ukrainian enterprises are capable of producing up to 8 million drones per year, but they do not have orders for this entire volume. According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with additional funding, drone production could be increased by another 40%. At the same time, the problem is not that Ukrainian companies are unable to fulfill state orders. By the end of 2025 year, 76% of the armaments the state centrally purchased were already going to Ukrainian producers. Also see: Private defense-industrial complex became the main force in artillery shell production in Ukraine: why this matters. NAUDI head Serhii Pashinsky notes that the capacities created during the war require stable loading, because without a sufficient number of orders, enterprises risk losing production and technological competencies. “The problem is that the capacities of enterprises are loaded only to a small percentage of what is possible, and if they are not loaded, they will deteriorate,” Pashinsky says. According to him, for the further development of the private defense-industrial complex, forecast state orders are needed to allow enterprises to plan investments and expand production.
As a reminder, earlier the Ministry of Digital Transformation named Ukraine’s main advantage on the global weapons market. And it is not the scale of production, since there are bigger players abroad.
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