The US military has placed an additional order for a further 1,320 F10 strike FPV drones from F-Drones under the Drone Dominance programme, which is being implemented for the US Department of War. The company reported this on Facebook.
F-Drones noted that, by the volume of the additional order, the company ranks second among participants in the first stage of the programme.
“The deadline for fulfilling the order for the additional supply of F10s is the end of November. We are currently going through all the necessary export procedures and approvals. We expect to obtain the Ukrainian permit in good time so that we can deliver the contract on schedule. F-Drones’ production capacity allows us to fulfil additional orders without harming supplies to the front. Ukrainian defenders receive our drones on time and in full,” said F-Drones CEO Stanislav Khutor.
The Drone Dominance Program is a Pentagon initiative worth $1.1bn, structured in four phases and designed to rapidly scale up production of strike drones for the US Army. It is a series of open trials in which companies compete for contracts, with order volumes increasing from round to round.
In the first round, held in February–March 2026, UDD (Ukrainian Defense Drones) — F-Drones’ US representative office — placed sixth among 25 participants and received an order for 2,000 F10 drones.
The F10 became the first Ukrainian drone to receive official authorisation for export to the United States. The US military received the first batch of 2,000 drones in July.
Notably, the export authorisation was issued before new Cabinet of Ministers decisions came into force to simplify the export of military-purpose products under martial law. In other words, the company went through the full cycle of approvals under the existing, significantly more complex export-control mechanism.
Ukrainian Defense Drones has also reached the final of the second stage of the Drone Dominance programme — Gauntlet II.
The Pentagon itself is cautious in its assessment of the programme’s scale: according to Travis Metz, deputy director of the Defense Innovation Unit, by February 2027 the United States will order fewer than 200,000 drones in total.