{"id":32701,"date":"2026-08-24T14:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/32701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T14:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:55:06","slug":"patria-to-join-with-ukraines-general-cherry-to-make-drones-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/32701\/","title":{"rendered":"Patria to join with Ukraine\u2019s General Cherry to make drones in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS \u2014 Finnish defense company Patria is teaming up with Ukrainian drone maker General Cherry to jointly develop drones<\/a> as well as start production of drones in Finland.<\/p>\n

The companies signed a letter of intent on Sunday to combine General Cherry\u2019s expertise in small drones and Patria\u2019s unmanned-technology expertise and defense-industry experience, which will allow them to jointly develop unmanned vehicles for Western European defense needs, they said in a statement on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The announcement is part of a broader wave of European defense-industrial cooperation with Ukrainian drone makers. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in December announced plans<\/a> to produce various Ukrainian drones in Germany, while Ukrainian UAV makers including Skyeton and Ukrspecsystems are partnering or investing in the United Kingdom to produce drones there.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnmanned defense systems are central to the future of defenses,\u201d said Mikko Leino, Patria\u2019s executive vice president for defense and weapon systems, in the statement. \u201cThe partnership with General Cherry further reinforces Patria\u2019s expertise in unmanned defence systems and drone development.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the collaboration, Patria plans to start drone production in Finland, which would help build up Europe\u2019s defense capabilities and support the Finnish firm\u2019s aim to be an innovative product developer, the company said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur unique battlefield experience, combined with Patria\u2019s technological capabilities, can help drive a fundamental transformation of the European and global security architecture,\u201d said Stanislav Hryshyn, co-founder of General Cherry, in the statement.<\/p>\n

Patria didn\u2019t immediately respond to phone calls and emailed questions about the cooperation plans, including whether the Finnish company will produce existing General Cherry drone models or when Finnish production could start.<\/p>\n

General Cherry produces a range of drones<\/a>, including one-way FPV strike drones and interceptor drones, and the company says its products are in use with more than 200 military units across the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Rudy Ruitenberg is a Europe correspondent for Defense News. He started his career at Bloomberg News and has experience reporting on technology, commodity markets and politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 Finnish defense company Patria is teaming up with Ukrainian drone maker General Cherry to jointly develop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[946,660,661,11516,656,237,5649,11515,11514,939],"class_list":["post-32701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-circulated-c4isrnet","tag-circulated-defense-news","tag-defense-news","tag-defense-production","tag-dn-dnr","tag-drones","tag-finland","tag-general-cherry","tag-patria","tag-unmanned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}