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Ukraine's F-Drones wins a Pentagon reorder that still needs Kyiv's permission

The Pentagon wants 1,320 more F10 strike drones by November. The contract value is undisclosed and Kyiv still has to sign the export permit.

Christian Connolly

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F-Drones F10 and F11 FPV drones on an exhibition stand
Photo: F-Drones via Kyiv Post · source
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The Pentagon wants 1,320 more F10s by November. Kyiv still has to sign the export permit.

The Pentagon has ordered another 1,320 F10 strike FPV drones from Ukraine's F-Drones under Drone Dominance, the company told Militarnyi. Delivery is due by the end of November, but the batch cannot ship until Kyiv issues a fresh export permit.[1]

1,320
F10 drones in the new order
Kyiv Post [1]
2,000
Phase-one batch, shipped July
Kyiv Post [1]
End Nov
Delivery deadline
Kyiv Post [1]
Undisclosed
Contract value
see estimate below

This is a reorder, not a new competition win. F-Drones, represented in the US by UDD Tech Corp, was one of 11 phase-one winners and shipped 2,000 drones in July. It took part in phase two and did not win.[2] The reorder means the Pentagon is buying more from a phase-one supplier while phase two picks different vendors.

Chart · orders

F-Drones' two Drone Dominance orders

Units. Solid = shipped; hatched = ordered, awaiting export permit.
Order 1 (shipped July)2,000
Order 2 (due end Nov)1,320 · pending
Source: Kyiv Post citing Militarnyi [1]. Combined 3,320 only if order 2 is delivered.

Neither the company nor the Pentagon has published a contract value. Defender Media puts it above $6.5 million by applying phase one's average unit price of about $5,000, and says F-Drones confirmed the unit price matches its earlier order.[2] That is a press estimate, not a disclosed number.

Unverified / estimateThe ~$6.5m value is Defender Media's arithmetic (1,320 x ~$5,000 average phase-one price). Neither F-Drones nor the Department of Defense has confirmed it.[2]
F-Drones F10 and F11 FPV drones on an exhibition stand
F-Drones F10 and F11 FPV strike drones on display. The F10 was the first Ukrainian drone cleared for export to the US.[1]Photo: F-Drones via Kyiv Post · source

The constraint is Ukrainian, not American. Ukraine's State Export Control Service issued the country's first permit to export finished combat drones in July. Every US order now depends on that office, and on F-Drones' claim that exports do not slow deliveries to the front.[1]

Bottom lineA $1 billion US program's second-ranked phase-one reorder runs on one Ukrainian export licence at a time. Watch the permit, not the order count.

Sources

  1. Kyiv Post, 'Pentagon Adds 1,320 Ukrainian F10 Drones to Drone Dominance Order', 8 Oct 2026 (citing Militarnyi). www.kyivpost.com
  2. Defender Media, 'US Buys 1,320 more FPV drones from Ukraine's F-Drones for $6.5M', 7 Oct 2026. thedefender.media
  3. UBN, 'Ukraine's F-Drones Wins Second Pentagon Order for 1,320 FPV Drones', 9 Oct 2026. ubn.news

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