Pentagon says US industry still years from matching Ukraine’s wartime output
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By Reuters 27 Jul 2026 Visitors gather at a Ukrainian company that develops and produces FPV strike drones at the Japan Drone Expo 2026 in Chiba, near Tokyo, Japan, 03 June 2026. The expo is open to the public until 05 June 2026. “It’s much harder to get from zero to 200,000” than it will be to scale up further once a domestic capacity to build many more drones exists, Metz said.But the Pentagon just made a big surge in drone building much tougher when it instituted rules that military drones must be made with U.S. parts.
- ▪By Reuters 27 Jul 2026 Visitors gather at a Ukrainian company that develops and produces FPV strike drones at the Japan Drone Expo 2026 in Chiba, near Tokyo, Japan, 03 June 2026.
- ▪The expo is open to the public until 05 June 2026.
- ▪“It’s much harder to get from zero to 200,000” than it will be to scale up further once a domestic capacity to build many more drones exists, Metz said.But the Pentagon just made a big surge in drone building much tougher when it instituted
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World Pentagon says US industry still years from matching Ukraine’s wartime output WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - The Pentagon official tasked with building a domestic drone industry said on Monday the United States is still in the earliest, hardest phase of that effort, acknowledging output remains a fraction of Ukraine’s production even as the government tightens rules requiring drones be built with American-made parts. By Reuters 27 Jul 2026 Visitors gather at a Ukrainian company that develops and produces FPV strike drones at the Japan Drone Expo 2026 in Chiba, near Tokyo, Japan, 03 June 2026. The expo is open to the public until 05 June 2026.
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