The Wild Hornets are a unique Ukrainian makers of combat drones founded in the spring of 2023. We have since become leaders in FPV drone manufacturing — backed by a global community of thousands of people in dozens of countries.

Our project is unique in that it empowers ordinary people to donate and support a defense initiative. To make this possible, a charitable fund was created as part of the Wild Hornets project. This fund allows anyone in any country to join our cause. We are driven by our shared goal of building quality drones to defend Ukraine and liberate Ukrainian lands.

To expand this effort, we formed a registered LLC, which works with corporate donors, Ukraine’s largest charitable funds, international funds, and dozens of Ukrainian military units.

You can help from anywhere. We invite supporters to join our community online. Follow us on X (Twitter), BlueSky and other social media.

Want to do more? Make a donation to spread democracy.Use our donation options on our Linktree page: https://linktr.ee/wildhornets (PayPal, credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, crypto). Get in touch by email to obtain bank transfer information: [email protected].

You can help even more by sponsoring a drone or picking up some merch. For information on naming a Wild Hornet, write to us at [email protected]. Our online store funds drones and includes attire from six legendary Ukrainian military units that we support: https://www.bonfire.com/store/wildhornets/.

Our international volunteers have organized many online and in-person fundraisers and formed affiliate support groups. One of these, Wild Hornets Canada, is a member of the Ukrainian World Congress.To get involved, please contact our international support coordinator at [email protected].

However you choose to help, your support strengthens the Wild Hornets, the defenders we serve and the cause of democracy not only for Ukraine, but worldwide.

Wild Hornets are exploring potential partnerships with international companies involved in drone making. Such collaboration will allow us to increase drone production for the Ukrainian military and to share our unique experience with other democratic countries to increase their defense potential and be better protected against future threats.

We are also exploring cooperation with countries like Canada, European Union members, Great Britain, Australia, Japan and the U.S.

If you’re an international fund and want to help Ukraine fight for its independence, we are open to cooperation to help Ukrainian military units that you support. If you’re a defense company, startup or military technology investment fund, we invite you to contact us to discuss joint ventures, licensing or other partnership.

To reach us about collaboration or support for Ukrainian military units, you can write us at this email address: [email protected].Please tell us about yourself and your organization and expect to complete a verification process.

We manufacture these high-quality, battle-proven products:

• Wild Hornets 10-inch FPV kamikaze drones.
• Wild Hornets 10-inch FPV bomber drones.
• Wild Hornets 10-inch FPV interceptor drones used to destroy reconnaissance and strike drones. These come in two models: standard and high-speed “Werewolf” interceptors.
• “Sting”fast FPV interceptor drones used to destroy Shahed-type drones.
• “Queen Hornets” multirole drone platforms used as a kamikaze, bomber, mine layer, signal repeater and carrier of supplies and smaller drones.
• Digital drone ground control stations—compatible with DJI and Walksnail systems.

Our drones come in a number of variants customizable to each unit’s needs, including digital or analog signal, automation features and night capable.

The Wild Hornets helped pioneer the use of FPV drones for combat use. These have revolutionized warfare around the world. FPV drones today inflict the majority of enemy combat losses in Ukraine.As of March 2025, Wild Hornets drones had caused $1.63 billion in estimated invader losses.In the skies, our air-defense drones helped reduce enemy Lancet drone strikes at the front by 75% within two months of their introduction.

We’ve spearheaded key advances in FPV drone warfare. We produced some of Ukraine’s first night-capable drones. Our team also helped launch Ukraine’s FPV air-defense capability with the fastest drones in Ukrainian service.

Queen Hornets opened a new chapter in Ukraine’s drone warfare—with cost-effective heavy bombers. These multirole drone platforms are also extensively used as mine layers, signal repeaters and carriers of supplies and smaller drones. They’re also among the first drones to be equipped with incendiary munitions, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and assault rifles. Our goal is to supply Queen Hornets to all Ukrainian units.

Our drones have contributed to Ukraine becoming the world’s drone leader and decisively swayed many major battles. Ukrainian drone pilots using our drones have received many high military decorations.

The Wild Hornets team is renowned for its uncompromising emphasis on quality. Our drones are trusted in combat for their unrivalled quality, performance and reliability. We thoroughly test every drone before shipment and use parts of exceptional quality, including our own high-performingbatteries. Our drones also boast superior signal quality. We offer all this at a cost accessible for any unit.

We welcome input from Ukrainian soldiers about our drones and actively work tosupport and train them. Our team offers technical support and detailed instructions on how to use our drones. We also offer access to our extensive Wild Hornets database, which contains constantly updated information about FPV drones, firmware, equipment and much more.

Our team is well known to all Ukrainian drone units as a leader in FPV drone innovation. We don’t copy drones from China. We create our own. This innovation includes projects like our “Night Hornets” team, which has conducted hundreds of drone field tests and joint operations with Ukrainian defenders at the front.

Wild Hornets are used by over 100 units of the Ukrainian military, a number that is constantly growing. Our drones are popular among all units, including the Armed Forces of Ukraine, National Guard, Special Operations Forces, Security Service of Ukraine, Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense (HUR), Air Force and State Border Guard Service.

Notable units we supply include:

• Kraken Special Detachment
• 73rd Naval Special Operations Center
• 12th Azov Special Purpose Brigade
• Bulava Presidential Fly Team, 3rd Mechanized Battalion, Separate Presidential Brigade
• SBU A Special Operations Center
• SBU military counterintelligence
• Muramasa drone unit, 109th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade
• “K-2” 2nd Mechanized Battalion, 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade
• 79th and 95th Separate Air Assault Brigades
• 1st Separate Assault Regiment named after Dmytro Kotsiubailo
• Non-Stop Group drone unit, Omega Special Purpose Center
• 1129th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
• Paskuda Group drone unit, 3rd Separate Assault Brigade
• 36th and 37th Separate Marine Brigades and many others

Our ground-breaking work and devastating drone strikes have been featured by major media, such as Forbes, The Telegraph, Business Insider, The War Zone, The Daily Mail, the Kyiv Post, podcasts by prominent X (Twitter) accounts @WarTranslated and @Tochnyi, and many others.

Feedback from Ukrainian defenders is the highest praise we can receive. Here are examples—along with praise from other experts:

• “Possibly the highest-quality drones in Ukraine… Our favorite drones at the front.”
  —BulavaPresidential Fly Team drone unit, 3rd Mechanized Battalion, Separate Presidential Brigade
• “I just had to ask (the Wild Hornets) to make me a proper drone. They made it right away.This is a top-notch drone.”
  —Hero of Ukraine Lieutenant Colonel Kyrylo Veres, commander of the 20th Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment “K-2”
• “Pivotal role in altering the course of the war.”
  —36th Separate Marine Brigade, praise for Queen Hornets drones
• “Wonderful, high-quality drones… To say I’m impressed doesn’t begin to cover it. Simply fantastic. The performance efficiency is just sky high.”
  —Chief drone tester, Achilles Strikes Drones Battalion, now the 429th Separate Regiment of Unmanned Systems “Achilles”
• “We have yet to see FPV drones that can carry this much weight….It (the Queen Hornet) is an analog of such large drones as the ‘Bat,’ but it’s cheaper, lifts more weight and is more functional, which is a very big plus.... We need even more Queens.”
  —Hrim (Thunder) drone unit, 37th Separate Marine Brigade
• “Until now, we were getting drones from five producers. But your drones are the best.”
  —Ukrainian drone pilot
• “Hornet drones are iPhones. It’s official.”
  —Ukrainian drone pilot
• “There are no drones like yours. They’re always ready to go. Other drones we get, we have to do a lot to make them ready. But yours, we just attach a battery and munitions and they're ready to fly.”
  —Ukrainian drone pilot
• “This cost (of Queen Hornets) is absolutely ridiculous considering what this machine can do...It has unequalled capacity.”
  —French military analyst Xavier Tytelman
• “One of the most efficient (drones), recommended by many military brigades, is the Wild Hornets.”
  —69th Sniffing Brigade volunteer group
• “Ukrainian defenders consistently say (Wild Hornets) are the most effective and reliable FPV drones.”
  —@BadBalticTakes, X (Twitter) page of volunteers of the Help99.co campaign