On May 29, Canada’s Department of National Defence and Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence signed an arrangement to manufacture Ukrainian-designed drones in Canada for Ukraine’s armed forces. The document established a 50-50 joint venture between Kyiv’s Airlogix and Ottawa’s Sentinel Research and Development. The venture is built around Airlogix’s GOR, the reconnaissance drone the company displayed at CANSEC. Production is phased: it starts with reconnaissance drones and is meant to expand to attack systems later, though neither government has confirmed which model the Canadian line will build first.

Under the arrangement, Sentinel supplies the airframes, drawing on composite-manufacturing methods it developed in-house. The airframes fall under an intellectual property license from Airlogix, subject to Canadian export controls. Production will be concentrated at a new plant, and the venture is expected to run into the 2030s. The Canadian drone will be based on the GOR but adapted to Canadian supply chains, so it will not be an identical copy.

The venture is funded by the CAD$220-million package for drone, counter-drone, and electronic-warfare that Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in Kyiv in August 2025, drawn from the CAD$2 billion Canada pledged at the June 2025 G7 summit. The Airlogix-Sentinel is the first concrete project under that commitment.