One of the largest Ukrainian manufacturers of FPV drones, Vyriy, presented a number of new products at the Brave1 Defense Tech Valley 2025 exhibition, including a drone-mother for carrying FPV drones and an inexpensive reconnaissance UAV of the "wing" type.
The first, the drone-mother, is called "Veresen". The company calls it "drone-father". "This name sounds more solid than the drone-mother. And actually, what kind of mother would let her children go? But with the father it is different," noted at the Vyriy company.
This drone can perform three functions at once. The first is a kamikaze, which can carry 4 kg of explosives to a distance of up to 75 km. The second is a drone-mother, which carries two FPV drones and acts as a signal repeater for them. The third is a reconnaissance, which operates for up to 180 minutes with a range of up to 50 km.
The second, budget reconnaissance drone, is called "Sokil." It is hand-launched, deploys in 20 minutes, operates at an operating altitude of up to 2,500 m, and has a maximum flight range of 170 km.
"We still don't have a cheap reconnaissance aircraft. And reconnaissance from winged UAVs is one of the best and most effective ways to detect and hold targets. This type of reconnaissance aircraft flies for a long time, sees far, is quiet, and is not as noticeable as a copter in visual terms."
"We need a lot of such aircraft, and so far no manufacturer offers a sufficient number. Today, manufacturers mostly rely on expensive systems for operation at distances of 50+ km from the line of combat contact (LCC). But the thing is that precisely because of the shortage of cheap reconnaissance aircraft, such UAVs are still used in the near zone," the company told "Oborontsi".
Both "Veresen" and "Sokil" will have a system to counter Russian FPV interceptors, which are increasingly shooting down Ukrainian drones.
"The countermeasure system will be somewhat similar to the one that the Russians have begun to install on their new drones - with radio air scanning and automatic decision-making. The system is not complicated, does not significantly increase the cost of the aircraft, but significantly increases its survivability and, most importantly, works autonomously. The operator only receives information that the evasion process has begun and the mission will have to be interrupted for a while," the company noted.
The cost of both aircraft will be $3,500-5,000 per unit. Both projects were created by different development teams, but Vyriy invested in their development and assembly deployment. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Under the agreement, the company will receive a 51% stake in the manufacturing companies.
Following the same principle, the company invested in scaling up the production of the Blyskavka kamikaze drone, which is a copy of the Russian Molniya, as well as in developing the project of its first NRC, Dzhankoy.
Previously, Defense wrote that at the Defense Tech Valley 2025 exhibition, DeViro showed an updated Bulava drone that can strike at a distance of 100 km.