During a meeting with business representatives, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the state is critically dependent on foreign technologies in the production of drones and weapons and currently remains more of a user than a full-fledged manufacturer.
All our super-defense technologies — drones and other things — whose component base are they? What is Ukrainian there? Even the 3D printer, on which most parts were produced, is not ours. Even its filament is not ours. We are users, nothing more
According to Budanov, the country has lost a number of important competencies, in particular in the field of guidance systems, which directly affects the development of tank and missile programs.
How many tanks have we built? Since the start of the full-scale war — zero. Missiles have begun to be produced, but there are nuances there too, and serious ones
He separately focused on problems accessing critically important components for weapons, noting that some nodes and assemblies are refused for sale to Ukrainian manufacturers even by partner states.
The component base, certain nodes, assemblies are simply not sold to us. And our allies do not sell them either
Budanov recalled that about 20 years ago Ukraine had its own capabilities to manufacture such systems, but they were later lost.
Previously we wrote:
- Russian drones with “fresh” circuit boards: components from several countries found in Shahed
- Ukraine created its own laser air-defense system to combat drones
- Ukroboronprom and Rheinmetall opened the first joint armored-vehicle repair workshop in Ukraine
- 3D printing is cheaper: drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being produced in the Mykolaiv region
- Ukraine has set up serial production of a Shahed analogue, — Ukroboronprom
