‘General Chereshnya’ has doubled its drone production and is now manufacturing over 100,000 drones every month
The company’s co-founder, Yaroslav Grishin, spoke about this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
According to him, a year ago the company was manufacturing around 50,000 FPV drones per month, but since then the team has managed to double production.
“Our production capacity stands at over 100,000 units a month, and we are working flat out to produce as many as possible,” said Grishin.
He explained that the main reason for the increase in production is the constant demand from the Ukrainian military.
“There is a great need. Our team is very patriotic and deeply committed. The need at the front is immense, and our drones are needed, so we work without days off – effectively 24/7,” noted the company’s co-founder.
According to Grishin, ‘General Chereshnya’ has long since moved beyond the production of classic FPV drones. The company is actively developing a range of fibre-optic drones, interceptor drones, strike UAVs and specialised systems to combat Russian ‘shahids’.
Interceptor drones have become one of the most successful areas of development. According to the company, the AIR and AIR Speed systems shoot down around 40 per cent of Russian ‘Molniya’ drones, whilst Bullet drones have already destroyed hundreds of ‘Gerani’ and ‘Gerber’ drones.
The company also states that Ukraine has virtually closed the gap with Russia in the field of fibre-optic FPV drones.
Whilst a year ago Russian forces had a significant advantage in the use of such drones, today, according to the manufacturer’s assessment, parity has been achieved on the front line.
The effectiveness of “General Chereshnya” products is also confirmed by combat results. Based on data from the “Delta” combat system, the company’s drones ranked first in terms of operational effectiveness for the months of March, April and May.
In total, during the spring alone, Defence Forces operators using the company’s drones struck nearly 40,000 Russian targets.
Furthermore, “General Chereshnya” was recently shortlisted as one of 19 finalists in the US Drone Dominance Programme (DDP), which tests the most promising unmanned technologies for the modern battlefield.
The company was founded in 2023, when a team of volunteers from Zaporizhzhia – who had initially been supplying the army with ammunition and transport – launched drone production and sent the first test batches of UAVs to the front line. The company’s name – ‘General Chereshnya’ – is linked to the Melitopol resistance movement, which operated throughout the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region.
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