4.5 million drones is a lot of drones. And it’s the Ukrainian government’s new production target for 2025—solely from Ukrainian factories. “Ukraine is now the world leader in drone warfare,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky boasted. He’s not wrong. Russia’s own target for drone production in 2025 is between 3 and 4 million, according to The New York Times. With certain important exceptions, Ukrainian drones are better-made, more reliable and more resistant to the main defense against drones: radio jamming. Explosive first-person-view drones, weighing just a few pounds and flown as far as six miles by remote operators wearing goggles that display feeds from the drones’ own cameras, now account for more than two-thirds of casualties on the 800-mile front line of Russia’s 37-month wider war on Ukraine. That means the tiny, maneuverable drones—each costing just a few hundred dollars—have killed or maimed potentially hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians and destroyed thousands of vehicles. Drone deployments are uneven. Both sides concentrate their best drones and operators in the sectors where they believe the impact will be greatest. For the Ukrainians, the priority areas include the devastated no-man’s-land around the ruins of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine.

Full report : Ukraine plans to make a whopping 4.5 million military drones to fight the Russians in 2025.