Orqa, a Croatian FPV drone company, has announced it is starting a Global Manufacturing Program meant to raise annual drone output to more than one million units. The company will use a network of outside manufacturing collaborators and has said it already has capacity for 280,000 drones per year in Croatia and intends to distribute production to the rest of the world.
“Our Global Manufacturing Partnership Program extends this capability by enabling allied markets to produce the same high-performance systems using Orqa’s standardized components,” said Srdjan Kovacevic, CEO of Orqa. “The agreements we’ve already secured put us on track to achieve our target capacity of one million drones per year, a significant milestone at a time when global security challenges are evolving rapidly.”
Orqa says it has already established manufacturing arrangements across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific, with more agreements in progress. The company frames the approach as standard components and repeatable processes, so each site can build the same systems to the same standard. Orqa also says it is vertically integrated from design through production, and that it delivered 100,000 products in 2024 to customers in more than 50 countries.
Orqa’s goal is to offer a standardized product across manufacturing partners while reducing dependence on Chinese component parts and commodity hardware.
“We’ve proven that high-performance drone production can be scaled outside of China, supporting the creation of resilient and trusted global supply chains. As demand accelerates, we’re ready to deliver securely and at scale,” said Kovacevic in November.
The goal, notes Kovacevic, is redundancy in manufacturing, ensuring that the company can continue to ensure “that each manufacturing partner can deliver drones and components to the highest standards while reducing lead times, logistics complexity, and regulatory barriers.”
