The year 2025 was terribly contrasted for Parrot. While the French group manufacturing micro-drones indeed achieved a record turnover of 79.8 million euros last year, growing by 6%, its sales did not explode in light of the new capacity challenges related to drones in current conflicts and the showcase provided by these systems on the Ukrainian front. The drone activity (47.9 million euros in turnover) timidly decreased by 2% despite a new commercial offering with the range of observation micro-drones (1 kg) ANAFI UKR. Why such a contrast? The results of 2025 reflect the restraint of international clients on budgetary grounds in the first semester but also the arrival of Parrot’s ambitious new offering (ANAFI UKR) commercialized since the end of 2024.
“The year 2025 was very disrupted for our clients,” summarized the founder and CEO of Parrot, Henri Seydoux, at the end of February during the Air & Defense program of BFM Business and La Tribune. “At the beginning of 2025, there was a new customs duty regulation that prompted the clients to wait to know the actual cost of drones. The year 2025 started very well, then it was really slowed down by a lack of decisions. But, the end of the year was excellent.” Parrot notably received multi-year orders from European defense forces at the end of the year for the deployment of its micro-drone ANAFI UKR. “On this type of drone, we have developed several technological innovations. We are at the forefront, we are really state-of-the-art and probably ahead of our competitors,” he observed.
While Parrot does not provide any indication of the annual balance of its orders in 2025 (in volume and value), it has indicated that the new dynamic of the defense market “results in a rapid increase in orders, whose size is becoming more and more significant, confirming the group’s offer’s alignment with the evolving needs in the defense and public security sector.” As a result, Parrot, which is well established commercially in the United States, is entering the year 2026 with significantly strengthened visibility in micro-drones: “the amount of orders already registered for 2026 is close to the turnover generated by this activity throughout 2025,” the group explains in its press release.
