Ukraine Long Range Drones Ranked by Reported Strike Range

Ukraine Long Range Drones by Reported Range

Fire Point's FP-1 has the highest reported range of the systems in the table below. The Associated Press (AP) gave the FP-1 a range of up to 1,600 km in August 2025. In June 2026 President Volodymyr Zelensky said upgraded FP drones can reach targets 3,000 km away, per a Euromaidan Press page the outlet labels advertorial.

The AN-196 Liutyi has a range of 1,500 to 1,700 km depending on wind, per Euromaidan Press in May 2026. SkyFall lists its Thor Hammer in 350 km and 600 km versions, with a version above 1,000 km in development, according to Defender Media. SkyFall prices the Thor Hammer at $25,000 to $30,000, the lowest published US dollar cost of any system in the table.

The table orders systems by the highest range figure any source reported for them. Those figures come from different publishers, years and warhead loads.

How Far Ukraine's Long-Range Drones Have Struck

The deepest reported Ukrainian drone strike of the full-scale war hit the Novy Urengoy Gas Condensate Treatment Plant in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on 9 September 2026. The plant sits about 3,200 km (1,988 miles) from the Ukrainian border, per the Kyiv Independent. Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SSO) and the General Staff announced the strike.

Fire Point said its FP-1 drone was used, and Governor Dmitry Artyukhov confirmed the attack.

In February the General Staff put a strike on Lukoil's Ukhta refinery at 1,750 km from the border, per ArmyInform, and Euromaidan Press still cited that as the confirmed record in May. The 6 July strike on the Omsk refinery, which Fire Point said its upgraded FP-1 drones carried out, pushed the reported figure past 2,500 km.

Published distances for Omsk disagree, and no source states its measuring points. The SSO said "nearly 3,000 kilometres" from the border via ArmyInform, and Reuters reported about 2,700 km from Ukrainian-held territory, per the General Staff. The Kyiv Independent later cited about 2,500 km from the border, also per the General Staff.

A long-range drone group leader from Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR), call sign "Vector", told 24 Kanal that HUR drones can fly up to 3,500 km, per Euromaidan Press. Euromaidan Press describes that figure as a capability claim, and no strike at that distance appears in any source on this page.

The drone type for the 20 June Tyumen strike is disputed: Defense News says an FP-2 did it, while Zelensky credited "upgraded FP drones".

The Deep-Strike Campaign in Numbers

One published measure of the campaign is Russian refining capacity. Russian industry sources told Reuters that Ukrainian drone and missile strikes took 20% of it offline between August and October 2025, per the Kyiv Post.

Refining output fell to about 5.1 million barrels per day (bpd) in that period, about 300,000 bpd below a year earlier, against total capacity of about 6.6 million bpd. On those figures output fell about 5.6% (300,000 divided by 5.4 million).

Reuters data show at least 17 major Russian refineries hit since the start of 2025. The UK-based Open Source Centre counted at least 58 attacks on Russian energy facilities from early August 2025, per the Kyiv Post.

Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) commander Robert "Madyar" Brovdi said USF hit 240 targets in Russia and occupied Ukraine in the first 48 days of 2026, including nine named refineries, per Euromaidan Press. The General Staff said Omsk was the last of Russia's 11 largest gasoline producers to be successfully struck.

Strike-share and effect figures are claims by the parties involved. Fire Point executives have put the FP-1's share of deep strikes at 60% and, citing the General Staff, at over 55%. UNITED24 Media cites Ukrainian military reporting of 59% of missions and 54% of confirmed hits.

Frontelligence Insight, in a March study cited by Euromaidan Press in 2025, said more than half of recorded strikes between September and February had limited impact. The study partly blamed small warheads on drones such as the Liutyi.

Who Builds Ukraine's Long-Range Drones

Fire Point, a Ukraine-registered company whose co-owners include chief designer Denys Shtilerman, builds the FP-1 and the FP-2. AP says the founders had backgrounds in construction, game design and architecture and no defense experience. Shtilerman told a parliamentary commission that Fire Point is valued at over $2.5 billion, per LIGA.net, and none of the sources cited here mentions a stock listing.

Fire Point is also the subject of a corruption controversy. The Kyiv Independent reported in August 2025 that Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) was examining whether Fire Point inflated component values, drone delivery counts or both. Fire Point has denied the accusations and called the probe rumor-based, and no charges have been filed against Fire Point.

The Defence Ministry's anti-corruption watchdog later said the data "strongly suggests" Timur Mindich is a beneficial owner, which Fire Point denies.

The Liutyi was developed by Antonov ASTC in collaboration with Ukroboronprom, the state defense conglomerate, per Forbes España. Germany concluded its first contract to fund more than 500 Liutyi drones, per UNN citing Welt, and Die Welt put the sum at around $100 million, per Euromaidan Press. DeepStrikeTech, a Ukrainian company, gave Militarnyi details of its Batyar.

SkyFall says it develops its main electronics in-house and has started developing its own engines for mid-strike drones, per Defender Media. The unnamed developer of the Bars told RBC-Ukraine that a joint venture in Germany would start production in September 2026, with first deliveries to Ukraine from 10 October, per LB.ua.

The makers of the Bober, Rubaka, Morok, Palianytsia and Peklo go unnamed in the sources cited here, and the wider field is covered in Ukrainian drone companies.

Costs and Production Targets

The one national long-range production target in the sources cited here is for 2025. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Zelensky instructed industry to produce "at least 30 000 long-range drones and 3 000 cruise missiles and drone missiles" that year, per Babel. No source cited here confirms how many were built.

Fire Point's production figures come from Fire Point itself, and none of them is independently verified. Iryna Terekh told the Kyiv Independent that Fire Point sold about 2,000 long-range drones in 2024 at roughly $55,000 each and planned about 9,000 for 2025. Terekh called 100 drones a day Fire Point's maximum capacity rather than a typical rate.

Shtilerman told ArmyInform in March 2026 that Fire Point "calmly" produces about 200 aircraft a day.

At Forbes España's figure of about $200,000, one Liutyi costs the same as eight Thor Hammers at SkyFall's $25,000 floor, or about 3.6 FP-1s at AP's $55,000. In August SkyFall set a target of 1,000 Thor Hammers a month by the end of 2026, per Militarnyi. In October SkyFall raised that target to 5,000 a month, per Defender Media. No source publishes actual Thor Hammer output.

Drones vs Missile-Drones and Cruise Missiles

Ukraine's long-range arsenal includes propeller-driven one-way attack drones and turbojet missile-drones. The Liutyi uses a gasoline piston engine with a pusher propeller, per Euromaidan Press, and SkyFall gives the Thor Hammer a top speed of 180 km/h. LIGA.net put the Peklo missile-drone at 700 km/h when the first batch was handed over in December 2024, about 3.9 times the Thor Hammer's top speed.

The Palianytsia, first used in combat on 24 August 2024, is turbojet-powered and ground-launched, and Zelensky called it "a completely new class of weapon", per the Kyiv Independent. Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told AP that one unit costs less than $1 million to produce.

The Bars developer gives its missile-drone a speed of more than 700 km/h and says the turbojet engine is its main imported part, with more than 74% of the Bars localised.

The Kyiv Independent describes Fire Point as the maker of the Flamingo cruise missile, covered in the Flamingo missile profile. The Liutyi has also been shown as a missile carrier.

A reusable version with four compact air-to-surface missiles, each with a stated 200 km range, was shown at the Farnborough International Airshow in July 2026, per Militarnyi. Defense Express, cited by UNITED24, suggests one reason for turning the Liutyi into a missile carrier is that the FP-1 is believed to offer similar range at lower cost.

What Is Not Published

No Ukrainian agency publishes an official spec sheet for any system on this page. Every range, warhead and cost figure above comes from a maker, an official speaking to press, a volunteer fundraiser or an analyst. Militarnyi says official Liutyi performance specifications are classified.

No source cited here gives Ukraine's monthly or yearly long-range launch count, actual 2025 production against the 30,000 target, or the share of Russian refining capacity hit in 2026. Interception rates by drone type are also unpublished. Russian officials report only that attacks were "repelled" or that air defences destroyed "most of the drones".

Strike distances carry their own gap, because sources rarely say whether they measure from the border, from Ukrainian-held territory or along a flight route. Before relying on a single range figure for Ukraine long range drones, compare the sourced numbers in the Liutyi vs FP-1 comparison.