Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that the Armed Forces will receive almost ten times more drones this year than in 2023, when around 140,000 were produced.
"In total, in 2023 the Armed Forces received about 140,000 unmanned devices. This year it is planned to multiply production, to be more precise, almost tenfold," Putin said during the meeting of the military industry commission, in a speech broadcast on public television.
The Kremlin leader, who admitted at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 that the Armed Forces were suffering from a critical shortage of drones, stressed that Moscow will also expand the production of "unmanned systems" and that nautical drones are also being manufactured.
After visiting one of the main drone manufacturing companies in St. Petersburg, the Russian President indicated that "most of these devices will be sent to the front" to protect the lives of soldiers and weapons, but also civilians and infrastructure.
"We need to fully meet the needs of the Armed Forces," he noted, proposing the use of artificial intelligence, since technology changes "almost every week", which would allow Russian units to gain an advantage.
By 2030, Putin continued, 48 drone design and production centers will be created in different regions of the country.
"The main task is to produce a wide range of unmanned aerial vehicles and establish mass production of this advanced equipment as soon as possible," he stressed.
Ukraine on Wednesday launched a large-scale drone strike that targeted a stockpile of missiles, ammunition and aerial bombs in Russia's Tver region, less than 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Moscow, in a similar operation that Kyiv's forces have carried out in the past against airfields and fuel depots.
In addition, Ukrainian naval drones forced Russia's Black Sea Fleet to withdraw some of its ships from the annexed Crimean peninsula.
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