The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine will increase purchases of UAVs for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2023, given the needs and demands of the Ukrainian army, about 20 billion UAH should be allocated for this segment in 2023.
As noted in the message of the Ministry of Defense, at a meeting of representatives of the Ministry of the General Staff of the AFU, domestic developers and manufacturers of UAVs, recently signed 16 state contracts with domestic manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Ukraine now has the easiest in Europe procedure for the admission of UAVs to the army, the Ministry of Defense stressed.
As a result, after the introduction of a new clearance procedure, which previously lasted a year and a half to two years, and now takes a few weeks, during the period from November 2022 to January 2023, the Defense Ministry received from the Ukrainian manufacturers 75 applications for UAVs of different types. Thirteen of them have already received codification and specifications have been approved. Three more types of UAVs are in the process of codification.
Participants of the joint meeting identified a number of tasks and steps to improve regulatory procedures. These proposals by the defense department are submitted for discussion by the Coordination Staff with the participation of the Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense.
