DREAM / The Prime Minister resigns and wakes up under the Parisian bridge!

 Kliko këtu për të tjera
Voxpress:

2026-09-26 18:47:00Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Albania ranks 8th in the world for the number of military drones acquired from foreign suppliers during 2022–2025, according to the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database. During this period, the country received 56 military drones, or about 0.3% of the global total of 16,822 units recorded by SIPRI.

Within the region, the difference is significant: Serbia ranks 21st with 10 drones, meaning Albania has received over 5 times more, while Kosovo ranks 34th with 5 drones, or over 11 times less than Albania. However, these figures do not include every type of military drone, as SIPRI mainly records large systems and cruise munitions, while small FPV drones and a large part of commercial drones adapted for military use remain outside the statistics.

Ukraine and Russia receive over 91% of registered drones

Drones have become one of the defining weapons of modern warfare, and their international trade in recent years has focused almost entirely on the war in Ukraine.

According to SIPRI data for the period 2022–2025, Ukraine received 8,664 military drones from foreign suppliers, accounting for 51.5% of the registered global total. Russia ranks second with 6,720 drones, or 39.9% of the total.

Together, Russia and Ukraine represent over 91% of all recorded imports of military drones in this period, indicating that the international market for these systems has been almost completely dominated by a single conflict.

The difference with other countries is very large. No other country has received even 300 drones during this period. Taiwan, in third place, has received 291 drones, South Korea 190, Azerbaijan 154, India 119 and Georgia 100.

Following them comes Albania with 56 drones, ahead of Hungary and Lithuania, which are reported to have 50 drones each.

83% of Ukraine's drones from US systems

Ukraine's supplies have been largely focused on American systems, which accounted for about 83% of the registered number.

In the case of Russia, the imports recorded by SIPRI are attributed to Iran. The majority were related to Shahed-136 drones, which Russia initially imported from Iran and then began producing in its own variant, known as the Geran-2.

According to SIPRI, there is little indication that Russia still needs continued Iranian input for the production of these systems.

The real market for small drones is much larger

SIPRI's figures only give a fraction of the actual activity with military drones. The database records categories of major weapons, where drones include unmanned aerial vehicles with a payload of at least 150 kilograms, as well as single-track attack drones and cruise missiles classified as missiles.

Small and relatively inexpensive FPV drones, which are used in very large numbers on the front lines, are for the most part not included.

For this reason, the difference between SIPRI statistics and the actual number of drones used can be very large. The United Kingdom alone, for example, sent over 85,000 small military drones to Ukraine during the first six months of 2025, about five times more than the entire global total of 16,822 drones that SIPRI records for the four-year period 2022–2025.

Domestic production also remains outside the import statistics. The Ukrainian defense industry already has the capacity to produce over 8 million FPV drones per year, while Ukrainian intelligence estimates that Russia produces around 2,800 Geran-2 drones per month. (Ekofin.al)


Në përputhje me standarded JTI

Video

SHIKO KANALIN NE YOUTUBE
×