Skyeton Prevail Solutions (SPS), the Anglo-Ukrainian joint venture set up to fast-track the volume manufacture and supply of ‘ready now’ drones for the UK military, validated its multi-role Raybird Class 1 unmanned aerial system (UAS) with its deployment as part of the British Army’s recent ‘Iron Titan’ exercise, the company announced on 11 December 2025.
“The system demonstrated the type of stealth, endurance and situational awareness increasingly central to modern battlefield operations,” SPS stated in a press release. “Launched from cold in under 25 minutes and operating out to a range of 10 km, Raybird identified and verified multiple high-priority targets while remaining undetected, confirming its merits as a recce-strike enabler utilised in more than 7,000+ missions in Ukraine totalling more than 350,000+ combat hours with attrition rates of less than 10%.”
Centred around the British Army’s Salisbury Plain training area, ‘Iron Titan 2025’ took place from late October and throughout November.
The Skyeton Group, headquartered in Kyiv, joined UK defence and security company Prevail Partners on 2 July this year to form SPS, with a remit to combine the Raybird’s battle-proven technology with a sovereign UK manufacturing capability. SPS aims to bring ready-now UAS technology to the UK armed forces as outlined in the UK’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR) 2025, published in June, while also generating skilled employment in the UK along with significant direct economic contributions from Raybird system exports.
“There was little doubt that Raybird would prove out its credentials, which have been so effectively demonstrated in Ukraine,” Justin Hedges, chairman of Prevail Partners, was quoted as stating in an SPS press release. “But perhaps more importantly this was the first milestone in embedding it as a sovereign UK proposition. Our next step is finalising the UK manufacturing plan to respond to the ambition in the SDR to bring ready-now and Ukraine-informed technology from agile SMEs within easy reach of the UK armed forces.”
