Ukraine’s National Guard has ordered more Linza and Zoom drones from Quantum Frontline Industries for delivery in 2027, the company said on 5 October. The venture, owned by Germany’s Quantum Systems and Ukraine’s Frontline Robotics, builds Ukrainian drones in Germany.
It did not give the size of the order, only that it is larger than the 2026 one. The venture plans to raise production fivefold next year. Maj. Gen. Oleksandr Pivnenko, commander of the National Guard, signed for Ukraine.
The venture was announced in December 2025. The first Linza 3.0 built in Germany was handed over in February, at the Munich Security Conference, and the first batch reached Ukraine’s armed forces on 1 April. It was “a triple-digit number”, Mykyta Rozhkov, Frontline’s business development director, told Ukrainska Pravda.
The deal needed a new kind of permit. On 23 February Ukraine’s State Service for Export Control approved the transfer of drone technology for production at the German plant, among the first permits issued after Kyiv restarted its export commission that month. Ukraine’s first export of finished combat drones came later, in July.
Frontline transfers three things, Rozhkov said: its assembly technology, key components carrying Ukrainian intellectual property, and a package to start production. He called it “a limited non-exclusive licence”, with a cap on how many drones Germany may build.
It went through Spetstechnoexport, a state-owned middleman. The papers took a week instead of the usual six weeks. Quantum Systems bought 10 percent of Frontline in July 2025, with an option to go to 25 percent.
Quantum’s target for 2026 is at least 10,000 Zoom and Linza drones, a spokesperson told Janes in December. Neither company has said how many it has delivered, and the Bundeswehr has not announced an order.
