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News & Current Events Apr 15, 2026 at 6:14 AM

Ukraine's military to get biggest ever drone package from UK

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Ukraine's military to get biggest ever drone package from UK
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Ukraine's military to get biggest ever drone package from UK
With attention on the Middle East, Defence Secretary John Healey said 'Putin wants us to be distracted.'

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rumoku 4 days ago +72
Ukrainian-origin companies built drone factories in the UK, and now the UK government is funding production in those factories. Win-win.
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BorisJohnsonsBarber 4 days ago +40
Win-win is exactly right. Ukraine gets drones that are actually useful, and doesn't get gouged by the massive corporations. The UK gets to create more skilled jobs, and gets access to unparalleled drone and drone countermeasure expertise.
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Practical_Chemtrail 4 days ago +15
Low key this is the big win. Drones designed by Ukrainians who have a deep and hard won understanding of what capacities are required at effective price points. Throwing expensive untested or unwanted drones at the problem is not going to help.
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BorisJohnsonsBarber 4 days ago +6
"Hard-won" is an understatement, but you're entirely right. Europe can learn these lessons from a friend now, or learn them from an enemy later.
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ApproachableGent 3 days ago +1
They say Britain doesnt have an army.. who needs an army when you've got good drones i guess
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008Zulu 4 days ago +184
I would like to imagine that UK's drone obliterate their targets with their nation's famed dry wit.
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Tinuva450 4 days ago +92
We are the drones that say “Ni”
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008Zulu 4 days ago +28
Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale!
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LesserShambler 4 days ago +49
No, it just hovers near the target and passive aggressively makes tutting noises under it’s robot breath
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wrincewind 4 days ago +8
Much like the legendary katana, a well-pitched "honestly..." or "well, really!" can cut a tank clean in half.
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Floccus 3 days ago +2
The newer models can tactically deploy a newspaper to rustle aggressively.
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popeter45 4 days ago +29
🎶 always look on the bright side of life 🎶
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LetterNo7829 4 days ago +14
The audioclip where they sing  “Always look at the bright side of death. *whistle* Just before you draw your terminal breath” should play whenever these drones are approaching the target. Imagine the look on Ivan’s face, right before it gets blown off. 
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PradyThe3rd 4 days ago +16
Their payload is just snippets of Stephen fry monologues. The Russians laugh themselves to death
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strikky 4 days ago +9
Love it... or David Mitchell ranting about some inane social faux pas.
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stalinsnicerbrother 4 days ago +11
Don't forget that we've weaponised the funniest joke ever discovered. And now, Drones with speakers can hover over the lines *У моей собаки нет носа....*
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PradyThe3rd 4 days ago +7
I think that violates the Geneva convention on joke warfare
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Demostravius4 4 days ago +6
Two peanuts vere valking down..ze strazen. One was. Assaulted. Peanut.
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JSteigs 4 days ago
My dog has no nose…. How does he smell… Awful
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Agitated_Ad7576 4 days ago +3
"Sorry I'm about to blow you up Old Chap, but war is a dog's dinner."
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MAGIGS 4 days ago +2
This drone is no mooooore! It has ceased to beeeee.
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McHoff 3 days ago +2
Early on in the war there was a video of a Ukrainian soldier firing a UK anti tank missile while shouting "God save the queen!"
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ImaginationToForm2 4 days ago +2
The drone will play Mr Bean or Benny Hill to distract the bad guys.
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008Zulu 4 days ago +1
It plays Benny Hill as it chases them.
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ImaginationToForm2 3 days ago +1
LUL, That be a funny AI video to watch.
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vreemdevince 4 days ago +1
Dropping shells with scalding hot baked beans or mushy peas. Sticks like napalm.
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JCDU 4 days ago +3
Dropping 13A plugs for people to step on, more brutal than a land mine.
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wdomeika 4 days ago +129
With every country that steps up and does the right thing, Trump gets smaller...
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wrincewind 4 days ago +5
Just a few hundred more countries until the rest of his body is as tiny as his little baby fists!
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Fragglesmurfbutt 4 days ago +147
UK has become Ukraine's greatest ally.
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Agitated_Ad7576 4 days ago +35
Can spell Ukraine without 'uk'.
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grimmalkin 4 days ago +29
Most common weather in the UK rain(e)
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lebennaia 4 days ago +65
Revenge for Salisbury continues.
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Apart_Cookie_9968 4 days ago +11
Poland and other Eastern European countries for step up massively for Ukraine 
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Karabungulus 4 days ago +2
Yeah it's been a big team effort to support Ukraine
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Slight-Bet754 3 days ago +1
Not in terms of financial help. Germany is leading (including weapon delivery)
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Sad_Sultana 3 days ago +1
As a brit I am really proud of this and happy to see major support for ukraine from both sides of the political aisle here, unlike certain other nations.
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clamorous_owle 4 days ago +83
Cheers to Britain! 🇬🇧 Helping Ukraine defend itself is not a one way street. Ukraine has developed a tremendous amount of expertise combating drones. Ukraine is advising countries in the Persian Gulf how to protect themselves from Iranian drones.
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TheCouncilOfElrond 4 days ago -39
Are Iran the bad guys? I know America are the bad guys and they've single handedly caused the global fuel crisis. Is Iran a piece of shit to a lot of middle eastern countries? I thought that title went to Israel and I'm unaware of Iran's actions prior to the US Iran war
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Sweaty-Adeptness1541 4 days ago +52
Both sides can be the bad guys in a conflict, there is no need for back and white thinking.
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glmory 4 days ago +22
One of the things that is so different about Ukraine is that it is one of the few wars where there is a black and white good and bad. It drives a lot of the importance of the war. Ukraine losing could return the world to the sort of colonization that mostly went away in the post World War Two period.
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Single_Classroom_448 4 days ago +29
Iran sponsor terrorist groups around the middle east and beyond, help russia produce shahed drones they're using against ukraine, and have murdered a lot of their own public It's a situation where the USA, Israel, and Iran are all bad people really
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TheRebuild28 3 days ago +1
Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.
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lawrenceM96 4 days ago +8
The IRGC ruling over Iran is one of the most destabilising nations in the world and are an abhorrent dictatorship that brutalise and oppress their own people. They fund and control numerous terror groups across the world, assist Russia with their military hardware and supply fuel and other critical support to Myanmar's Junta. A world without the IRGC is good for Iran and good for global stability and peace.
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hard_carbon_hands 4 days ago +6
Joking or serious?
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TheCouncilOfElrond 3 days ago +1
I'm just unaware and happy to learn
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Aether_Breeze 4 days ago +4
It is never a bad thing to admit you don't know something and to ask a question. The only bad thing is to be ignorant and to revel in it. Everyone should be willing to ask when they don't know something and that will make the world a better place. All this is to say, ignore the downvotes, good on you for asking when you didn't know, and yes, Iran are 100% the bad guys. This war is an 'everyone sucks here' situation.
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TheCouncilOfElrond 3 days ago +1
These comments although aggressive I really wanted to know and appreciate it
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Sad_Sultana 3 days ago +1
Yeah Iran are the f****** bad guys, obviously, but so are Israel and America. Conflicts aren't one sided, but sometimes they heavily favour kne side over the other (see ww2 or the ukraine war)
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ye_olde_green_eyes 4 days ago
The unawareness is clear.
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grimmalkin 4 days ago +62
It is seldom in this day and age that I feel proud of my country, but today is that day.
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GardeniaFrangipani 4 days ago +35
As an Australian, I’m very proud of your country too. ❤️
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Pick_Up_Autist 4 days ago +23
We've been pretty consistent in doing what we can to help, even when the con artists were in charge.
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coachhunter2 4 days ago +23
F*** Putin
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el_dude_brother2 4 days ago +5
And Putin's lapdog Trump
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Far-Entertainer3555 4 days ago +13
140,000 is great. I had no idea we were producing drones in serious volumes. 140k will likely last Ukraine approx 4-8 weeks, depending upon the type of drones being provided.
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i-read-it-again 4 days ago +7
So is this why trump is so angry at the uk . What will trumps friend Putin say about this ?
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AstralWoman 4 days ago +9
"Flash by name, Flash by nature...Hurrah!"
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AdFeeling842 4 days ago +23
this is great, but the uk could have delivered even bigger package if they used cargo plane instead of a drone...sigh
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m0rphiumsucht1g 4 days ago +2
Slava Ukralini
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Sup3rT4891 4 days ago +3
“Biggest ever, from Uk” or biggest UK has given?
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Actually_a_dolphin 3 days ago +2
Biggest UK has given.
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Formal_Tea_1997 4 days ago +13
brittian really said we may have lost the empire but we kept the recipts
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WIZZZARDOFFREESTYLE 4 days ago -46
BRO FUCKED AND KEPT THE RECEIPTS  LOWKEY TS TUFF 🥀  PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG AND GET THE DIH 
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hippodribble 4 days ago +3
Are they sending Boris?
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mmoonbelly 4 days ago +4
Maybe as target practice? [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/16/stuck-zip-wire-boris-johnson-london-2012-olympics](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/16/stuck-zip-wire-boris-johnson-london-2012-olympics)
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vreemdevince 4 days ago +16
Wasn't he still a strong supporter of Ukraine during his time though?
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Individual_Panda_422 4 days ago +17
Yeh tbf I can't stand the man and I think the damage he's done to this country through his lies leading up to Brexit is unforgivable, but this is something he does deserve credit for. I was proud as an Englishman to see his response to this conflict at the time.
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shion980 4 days ago +6
So basically, the UK is helping Ukraine with supply packages, the US is helping Russia by making their oil more expensive and China is arming Iran with anti-air weapons.... All while the rest of the world suffers from the war. I f****** hate our timeline.
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WhereTheSpiesAt 4 days ago +26
Pretty much the entirety of Europe as well as most Western aligned countries are providing supply packages to Ukraine, seems odd to miss that out.
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shion980 4 days ago +2
Mb. I forgot about the rest of Europe. I just read off the title while typing that.
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Keezees 4 days ago +2
Drone waits behind target, then another drone appears and waits behind the first drone, until there's a queue waiting to blow the target up.
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Sad_Sultana 3 days ago +2
And from head on it looks like just one drone, genius really.
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Comfortable_Shame778 4 days ago +2
In that shipment, can’t we sneak in a few Trident II missiles. And before anyone says anything, I am fully aware these are launched from submarines. It was just a joke.
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Pumpkins_Are_Fruits 4 days ago -3
Good. Let other countries help for once
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Adventurous-Eye3884 4 days ago
Yyeessss
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