Kyiv; October 2026: Vide an official press release today (Thursday – 15th October 2026; IST), the Ukrainian Defence ministry has announced that Ukraine’s military have used its DELTA battlefield management system (DBMS) to coordinate maritime operations during NATO’s REPMUS 2026 exercises, successfully integrating aerial, surface, and underwater drones as well as radars. DELTA is Ukraine’s digital situational awareness and battlefield management system developed by the Ministry of Defense together with Ukrainian IT specialists.
REPMUS (Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping with Maritime Unmanned Systems), is an annual NATO exercise led by the Portuguese Navy, while Ukraine has participated for the third time this year.
During the exercises, partners and allies practice the joint use of unmanned sea, air and underwater systems, check their compatibility as part of a multinational force. This is the largest international event to test the use of unmanned systems in maritime operations.
The Ukrainian team, which included military personnel of various types and branches of troops, coordinated its actions through the DELTA combat system. At REPMUS 2026, Ukrainian specialists, together with their allies, practiced:
·reconnaissance;
·monitoring of the water area;
·maneuvering;
·exercises for accompanying and modeling lesions;
·shared combat experience with partners, in particular in the use of unmanned systems in the maritime domain.
DELTA test results and compatibility with NATO standards signifies that all means transmitting telemetry according to the NATO STANAG 4817 standard were successfully integrated into the DELTA system. Last year, DELTA served as the main platform for managing and controlling actions at REPMUS 2025. At that time, the system integrated more than 100 multi-domain unmanned vehicles.
Based on the results of this year's exercises, the Ukrainian team noted the uninterrupted operation of DELTA in conditions of unstable communication, as well as the convenience of streaming in the Vezha module compared to other platforms.
Ukraine will continue to share combat experience in the use of unmanned systems and develop interoperability with the forces of NATO member states. Earlier, the Ministry of Defence reported that more than 6,600 enemy targets are recorded daily in the DELTA combat system.
DELTA had already served as the main command-and-control platform during last year’s (2025) REPMUS, when it integrated more than 100 unmanned systems operating across multiple domains.
The Defense Ministry stated that this year’s testing again demonstrated DELTA’s compatibility with NATO systems and moved Ukrainian solutions closer to broader standardisation within the Alliance. Ukraine plans to continue sharing combat experience from unmanned operations while expanding interoperability with NATO member forces.
Earlier in June this year (2026), DELTA have logged more than 200,000 drone-confirmed strikes on Russian targets, averaging over 6,600 per day. The system also processed more than 75,000 video streams daily and used its built-in Avengers platform to automatically detect enemy objects in battlefield footage.The ministry stated that the monthly count has climbed steadily through this year – January 2026 to June 2026, and have confirmed drone strikes recorded in the system nearly doubled, rising from 105,798 to 200,218.
Over the past year, DELTA gathered 820,000 reports on combat results against Russian targets, the ministry noted, including almost 240,000 concerning enemy personnel. The system also logs strikes on tanks, drones, and other equipment. More than 8 million new objects are added to its digital map each month, giving units a current picture of the battlefield.
The confirmed strikes feed the "Army of Drones. Bonus” program, under which units earn points for verified hits carried out with unmanned systems. The ministry stated that the mechanism allows it to track each unit's effectiveness and reward the teams with the strongest results.
The tally covers hits on personnel, equipment, weapons, and shelters, along with downed Russian drones of both quadcopter and fixed-wing type. More than 75,000 video streams run through DELTA every day, the ministry added. Its built-in Avengers platform uses artificial intelligence to detect enemy objects automatically in battlefield footage.
In early 2026, the ministry introduced a Mission Control module, a unified digital system for managing drones. This module replaced the need for paperwork. It now operates across all corps and troop groupings, with dashboards accessible from the unit level to the General Staff. Following which in March this year (2026), the Ministry of Defense expanded the DELTA Mobile app to include a radar tool that warns individual service members of incoming air threats and plots hostile aircraft on a map, with a choice of voice or audio alerts.
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