Farnborough 2026: Ukrainian defence industry unveils Liutyi equipped with four missiles

Ukrainian Defence Industry's (Ukroboronprom's) Liutyi fixed-wing UAV equipped with four missiles, unveiled at Farnborough 2026. (Janes/Tamara Rozouvan)

Ukrainian Defence Industry (UDI), the country's state arms manufacturer, also known as Ukroboronprom, unveiled its Liutyi fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with four missiles on wing-mounted hard points at the Farnborough International Airshow 2026, being held from 20-24 July.

The Liutyi configuration with the missiles is referenced by UDI as a tactical unmanned combat aerial system. Each of the missiles, which a UDI representative declined to give a name or manufacturer for in comments to Janes on 23 July, has an explosive warhead of around 20 kg. UDI technical specifications describe the Liutyi UAV as having a total payload of 50-150 kg.

Liutyi use

“It can be used to strike an airfield with planes when you need several small hits. Another option is to use it in [so-called] decoy mode. You put this drone in loitering mode near the Russian border and when you have resources for an attack just fire these missiles and Russians will see them on their radar. They will intercept and when they are reloading you strike with another drone,” a representative of UDI explained to Janes on 23 July. The representative stressed that Russian reports of Ukraine sending “a barrage of 300 drones” usually means that there are at least 50 decoy UAVs used in the attack. “The main wave of deep strike drones come after that. These are from our, let's say, partners,” the representative explained. Janes was told on at least two separate occasions by senior representatives of Ukrainian missile and UAV manufacturers that, during war time, they reference competitor Ukrainian companies as partners.