Has considerably ramped up weapons manufacturing over the previous 12 months and is utilizing domestically produced ballistic and cruise missiles each month, the nation’s Minister for Strategic Industries mentioned.
At a briefing marking Ukraine’s Gunsmith Day, Strategic Industries Minister Herman Smetanin mentioned the nation elevated cruise missile manufacturing eightfold in 2024 in comparison with the earlier 12 months. He highlighted the progress since 2022, when Ukraine was solely in a position to manufacture a single sort of cruise missile, the Neptune.
“Final 12 months, we launched many new fashions, permitting us to develop manufacturing eightfold in comparison with 2023,” Smetanin mentioned.
Ukraine has additionally greater than doubled its manufacturing of long-range drones in 2024 in comparison with the earlier 12 months, which is a 22-fold improve in comparison with 2022. In whole, 324 new kinds of weapons have been developed in Ukraine by the tip of 2024.
Smetanin mentioned Ukraine produced $9 billion value of arms in 2024, and the protection business is on observe to almost quadruple that quantity by the tip of 2025. “We already foresee progress this 12 months,” he mentioned. “By the tip of 2025, we may have the capability to provide $35 billion value of army gear domestically.”
President’s Advisor Oleksandr Kamyshin added that Ukraine can now provide its armed forces with almost the total vary of essential army items.
“In the present day, in response to varied estimates, 30% to 40% of what our troops use on the entrance traces is made in Ukraine,” Kamyshin mentioned. “It’s not solely about conflict — it’s about our economic system. As of final 12 months, protection manufacturing made up a big share of our GDP. After our victory, I’m assured we’ll be exporting Ukrainian-made weapons to the world.”
Ukraine has been quickly growing its home arms business since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. In December 2024, President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned the nation goals to provide 30,000 long-range drones and three,000 missiles. As of November 2024, Ukraine had produced its first 100 domestically made missiles.
Ukraine has additionally turned to native manufacturing to deal with battlefield shortages and scale back dependency on overseas provides, together with new home artillery contracts.
The Kyiv IndependentTim Zadorozhnyy