US and Iran account for 86% of military drone exports ...Iraq

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The United States and Iran supplied 86% of the 16,822military drones exported worldwide between 2022 and 2025, with nearly all ofthem going to opposite sides of the war in Ukraine, according to data from theStockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) compiled by VisualCapitalist.

SIPRI counts drones weighing at least 150 kilograms, alongwith one-way attack drones and loitering munitions, which are designed tostrike once and be destroyed. Small first-person-view and commercial drones arelargely excluded. Single-use drones make up 97% of the global total, whichexplains how a few wartime transfers can run into the thousands.

Exports fall off sharply below the top two. Germany rankedthird with 1,000 drones, followed by Poland with 690 and Turkiye with 381. Theseven smallest exporters, from Czechia to Sweden, delivered 89 drones combined.

US drone exports rose from 1,010 in 2022 to 3,219 in 2024,then dropped to 402 in 2025, the year new US military aid to Ukraine came to ahalt. Iran delivered about 2,000 drones a year from 2023 to 2025, including2,002 in 2025, five times the US total.

Turkiye's Wider Reach

About three-quarters of Turkiye's exports were larger,reusable aircraft such as the Bayraktar TB2. It supplied 281 of the 486 suchdrones exported worldwide, or 58%. Measured by SIPRI's trend-indicator value,which weights weapons by military capability rather than units, Turkiye was thelargest drone exporter of the period.

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