F-Drones
Ukrainian FPV strike-drone maker whose F10 became the first fully assembled Ukrainian combat drone cleared for export, delivering 2,000 units to the Pentagon and seeding the first US production line for a Ukrainian drone firm.
Background
F-Drones is a Ukrainian manufacturer of first-person-view strike drones led by chief executive Stanislav Khutor, who is also referred to as Stas Khutor in some reporting.
Like most Ukrainian drone makers it keeps its production locations undisclosed for wartime security, and neither its founding date nor a corporate website appears in the available reporting.
The product line has widened quickly across 2026. The F10 is the flagship: a cheap FPV attack quadcopter of the type Ukraine now fields in the millions, and the system that carried the company into the Pentagon's Drone Dominance programme. In May 2026 the company unveiled Litavr, an interceptor drone named after the Cossack kettledrum and built for the specific mission Ukraine has had to industrialise faster than anyone, shooting down Russian Shahed-type one-way attack drones with something cheaper than a missile.
In early August 2026, at the Technological Forces of Ukraine event, it presented CAPITAN, also marketed as F-CAPTAIN, a middle-strike system reaching up to 100 km against stationary and mobile targets, pitched on operating through Russian electronic warfare and on being affordable.
That progression, from attack FPV to interceptor to medium-range strike, tracks the war's own trajectory and is the reason the company matters beyond its size.
It is also, unusually for a Ukrainian firm, being executed with a US industrial footprint attached.