Pentagon Adds 1,320 Ukrainian F10 Drones to Drone Dominance Order

The US military has ordered 1,320 more F10 strike drones from Ukraine’s F-Drones, extending the first commercial supply of Ukrainian-made combat drones to the Pentagon, Militarnyi reported.F-Drones told the outlet the drones were ordered under Drone Dominance, a US Department of Defense program worth $1 billion. The program aims to buy small strike drones over the next two years, with plans to acquire more than 200,000 units by 2027.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.According to Militarnyi, the F10 was the first Ukrainian drone to receive official permission to be exported to the US. UDD Tech Corp represents F-Drones on the American market.By the size of its additional order, F-Drones ranks second among participants in the program’s first phase, the company said. The new order follows a first batch of 2,000 F10 drones, which the US military ordered under the same program and was shipped to the Pentagon in July.If delivered as planned, the two orders would bring a total of 3,320 drones.F-Drones must deliver the new batch by the end of November, as the company expects to receive a Ukrainian export permit in time to meet that deadline.F-Drones also told Militarnyi its production capacity allows it to fill the extra order without disrupting supplies to the front. According to F-Drones CEO Stanislav Khutor, Ukrainian defenders are receiving the company’s drones on time and in full.In July, Ukraine’s State Export Control Service had issued the country’s first official permit for the export of finished combat drones. Other Topics of Interest 3 Killed, 14 Injured as Russian Drones Assault Kyiv in Fresh Attacks, Hit Store The attacks came a day after Russian weapons killed at least four people in the capital. Olena Hrazhdan is the Business Reporter at Kyiv Post, covering Ukraine’s markets, business, and economic policy. While she reports broadly on economic issues, her core focus is banking, finance, monetary and fiscal policy. Olena previously wrote for leading Ukrainian business media and became a Fellow of the International Monetary Fund’s Journalism Fellowship in 2024.