{"id":538877,"date":"2026-04-19T05:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538877\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:05:25","slug":"uk-mod-to-supply-120000-uavs-to-ukraine-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538877\/","title":{"rendered":"UK MoD to supply 120,000 UAVs to Ukraine in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"invisible\" style=\"display: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bsp_103167-jdw-35655.jpeg\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/placeholder-16-9.jpg\" class=\"invisible w-100\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-body text-muted small\">A Windracers Ultra heavy-lift UAV in operation at night at an undisclosed location in Ukraine in 2025. (Windracers )<\/p>\n<p>The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) will supply at least 120,000 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Ukraine in 2026, with deliveries already underway in April 2026, according to a 15 April MoD press release.<\/p>\n<p>The new delivery will include thousands of long-range strike UAVs, intelligence and reconnaissance platforms, as well as logistics and maritime platforms. All of the UAVs are battle-proven on Ukraine&#8217;s frontline, according to the MoD press release.<\/p>\n<p>\n      The majority of the UAVs will be supplied by British-based companies including Tekever, Windracers and Malloy Aeronautics, as per the release. Simon Muderack, CEO of Windracers, said in a 15 April statement, \u201cWindracers Ultra provides Ukraine with a resilient, dual-use heavy-lift platform offering long-range operational support.\u201d Windracers did not provide further details to<br \/>\n      Janes<br \/>\n      on the platforms being sent to Ukraine.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Windracers<\/p>\n<p>\n      In October 2025, Muderack told<br \/>\n      Janes<br \/>\n       that Windracers provided dozens of its Ultra UAVs to Ukraine with a planned \u201csignificant uptick over the next 12 months [until September 2026]\u201d.\n    <\/p>\n<p>The Ultra heavy lift UAV was configured to fly up to 2,000 km while carrying a 200 kg payload, the company announced at a launch event in London in January. Previously, the platform had a range of up to 1,000 km and a payload capacity of 150 kg. The Ultra platform is capable of fully autonomous flight by using its self-managing \u201cend-to-end\u201d mission control software. A number of sensors including GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) antennas, updates to electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) cameras were added for the integration of the autonomous capability.<\/p>\n<p>Tekever<\/p>\n<p>                        Go beyond the headlines \u2014 with direct links to interconnected entities<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1\">Get full access to validated equipment, military capabilities, and market insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Windracers Ultra heavy-lift UAV in operation at night at an undisclosed location in Ukraine in 2025. (Windracers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-538877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}