Ukrainian company Skyeton, which produces the Raybird reconnaissance aircraft complex, and British company Prevail Partners have agreed to create a joint venture to promote Ukrainian drones in the UK, Defense Express reports, citing Janes.
According to the companies' estimates, the joint venture will significantly increase the production of drones, using production capabilities in the UK. At the same time, Skyeton will provide the production technology of the complex and permanent packages of modernizations, which are carried out as a result of the use of the Raybird drone on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The production of drones outside the country can be both an element of additional strengthening of Skyeton's capabilities in implementing contracts for the Defense Forces of Ukraine, and a way to enter the international market.
It is possible that the agreement with Prevail Partners is part of an agreement between Ukraine and the United Kingdom to produce drones in the Kingdom. Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed during a meeting with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, to launch a "mega-project" to produce drones for the Ukrainian Defense Forces for a period of three years.
And even earlier, Zelenskyy announced the signing of a number of agreements on the export of Ukrainian weapons production technologies to other countries, primarily to European countries.