Ukraine’s Defense Procurement Agency is expanding far beyond drones, adding tactical missiles, aircraft, and thousands of vehicles to its wartime purchasing while reporting record contracts and faster deliveries to the front.
New Procurement Categories
The agency has added tactical missiles and aircraft to its 2026 procurement list. Quad bikes, motorcycles and buggies are also being bought for the Defence Forces. The range matters. A military fighting across dispersed positions needs more than weapons alone. It needs ways to move people and equipment, while procurement keeps pace with changing battlefield demands.
Record Artillery and Vehicle Contracts
The agency says its purchase of long-range 155mm artillery shells is the largest contract by value in its history. Competition between suppliers cut the price by 16% against the initial procurement amount, saving billions of hryvnias. That is money available for other military needs instead of being absorbed by an inflated shell bill.
It has also launched what it calls its largest-ever competitive vehicle procurement: 5,000 pickup trucks. These procurement milestones serve a purely functional role. Artillery ammunition and transport are daily requirements, and the quantities show how much the agency is trying to move through a system built for wartime demand.
Drone Expansion and Direct Orders
In 2026, the agency contracted 300% more non-FPV drones than it did in all of 2025. FPV contracting rose 54%, while FPV deliveries increased nearly 3.7-fold. Contracting and delivery are different measures, but both point to a sharp expansion in the flow of unmanned systems.
DOT-Chain Defence and Delivery Speed
DOT-Chain Defence shows the other side of that work: getting equipment to the units that need it. Launched in July 2025 as a pilot for 12 brigades, the online marketplace now connects more than 500 Defence Forces units. Since late July 2025, it has delivered 1.4 million items worth over 95 billion hryvnias. Its catalogue holds roughly 1,300 products from nearly 300 Ukrainian manufacturers.
The agency reports a weighted average delivery time of eight days for stocked products and 37 days for items made to order.
Those timelines, alongside the savings on shells, are the hard test of procurement reform: whether competition and a larger domestic catalogue translate into equipment reaching Ukrainian troops.
