Question follow-through · 53705
Unmanned Air Systems: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2025 to Question 46138 on Unmanned Air Systems: Procurement, how many of the FPV drones procured by his Department are for use by the (a) Army, (b) Royal Air Force, (c) Royal Navy
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2025 to Question 46138 on Unmanned Air Systems: Procurement, how many of the FPV drones procured by his Department are for use by the (a) Army, (b) Royal Air Force, (c) Royal Navy
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
Aside from MOD’s procurement of circa 30,000 FPV drones for Ukraine the Army has procured 450 FPVs with a further 3,000 for delivery August 2025. The Royal Navy and Royal Air Force have procured a small number of FPVs for test and evaluation by the Defenc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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