The Ministries of Defense of Ukraine and Great Britain have agreed on the joint production of a thousand interceptor drones "Octopus-100" (Octopus-100), Ukrinform reported, quoted by BTA.
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov announced the news today on "Facebook".
"Ukraine is moving to a new level of partnership with the United Kingdom in the defense sector", he wrote in his post.
Umerov notes that this will be the first Ukrainian combat drone to be put into serial production in a NATO country.
Earlier this week, President Volodymyr Zelensky showed the Ukrainian interceptor drone "Octopus-100" to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a meeting in London, Ukrinform recalls.
The United Kingdom will produce these unmanned aerial vehicles for further testing in Ukraine.