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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.
The United States exported 7,593 drones and Iran 6,800, or45.1% and 40.4% of the global total, respectively. Ukraine received 95% of USdrone exports, while 99% of Iran's went to Russia.
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.
Nearly all of Iran’s recorded exports were Shahed-136drones, including units produced in Russia under Iranian license, which SIPRIcounts as Iranian transfers.
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.
Iran Overtakes The US In 2025
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.
Most US drones shipped in 2025 went to Taiwan, whichreceived 291 loitering munitions. Ukraine received 100 US-made loiteringmunitions that year, paid for by Britain.
Turkiye's Wider Reach
Although it ranked fifth by volume, Turkiye sold drones to28 countries, more than half of the 54 that imported military drones and nearlythree times as many as the United States or China, which supplied 10 each. Itsbuyers range from 12 African countries to NATO members Poland and Romania, aswell as Pakistan, Kuwait and Ukraine.
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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