Japan will purchase Ukrainian Skyfall drones for testing

Japan will purchase unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) produced by the Ukrainian company Skyfall on a trial basis. This was reported by Kyodo with reference to Itsunori Onodera, a former defense minister and one of the senior members of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who visited Kyiv.

As the publication notes, Tokyo plans to evaluate the characteristics of these drones, and is also considering the possibility of adopting Ukrainian attack drones into service with the self-defense forces.

It is clarified that during his visit to Ukraine, Onodera, who in the LDP coordinates the work on revising three basic documents in the field of defense, including the national security strategy, collected information on the experience of conducting modern military operations. He intends to share this information during internal party discussions.