Russia expects to produce 32,500 civilian drones annually by 2030 as part of a project approved last year, the country’s first Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov said in a comment for the Russian state news agency TASS published on Jan. 6. Backed by the Russian government at the end of December 2023, the “Unmanned Aircraft Systems” project aims to boost domestic drone production for various industry sectors. Commercial drones have also been often repurposed for military tasks and used by both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war. According to Belousov, the figure he provided does not include dro…