Supply disruption: military did not receive fiber-optic FPV drones worth UAH 5 billion. VIDEO
One Ukrainian manufacturer has disrupted the delivery of a large batch of FPV drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As Censor.NET reports, this is reported in an article by investigative journalist Yurii Nikolov.
According to the journalist, this concerns more than 100,000 fiber-optic FPV drones that were supposed to be delivered to the military a month ago. The drones have already been paid for, but units in different directions still have not received them.
Breach of contract
Yurii Nikolov notes that the manufacturer took an advance payment, but after that Chinese suppliers sharply raised the price of fiber-optic cable. As a result, the company could not fulfill the contract on the agreed terms and now cannot complete the order at the old price.
"This is not a small batch, but an amount that would have been enough to strike the enemy for several months," the journalist stressed.
By his estimate, the front’s monthly need is about 30,000 such drones. This figure corresponds to the replenishment rate of Russia’s army.
Responsibility for procurement disruptions
Nikolov believes responsibility does not rest only with the manufacturer. According to him, the situation became possible due to shortcomings in the defense procurement system.
The journalist points to the "dot-chain" mechanism introduced by the team of Arsen Zhumadilov, head of the Defense Procurement Agency (DPA). According to him, a critical vulnerability was built into this system.
- Earlier, Yurii Nikolov stated that the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development denied approval for a tender to design a road to the Bukovel resort worth 9 billion hryvnias, which was held by a regional service in Ivano-Frankivsk region
