-5cc12d78af84b01a3c2ed389b8e32272.png "Drone footage captures a precision strike by Ukrainian forces targeting a Russian artillery system. (Source: Unmanned Systems Forces)")
#Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
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-72b63a4e0c8c475ad81fe3eed3f63729.jpeg "Photo of Cyril Barabaltchouk")
-5793c5670da590738fb56f66d1e9d3bf.png "Rare Russian Be-200 amphibious aircraft moments before Ukrainian drone strike, May 15, 2025. (Source: Brovdi.Art/Facebook)")
![Thermal targeting footage captures the moment a Ukrainian FP-2 drone locks onto a Russian FSB special forces command post in temporarily occupied Donetsk. (Source: Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Unmanned Systems Forces Robert “Magyar” Brovdi)]( "Thermal targeting footage captures the moment a Ukrainian FP-2 drone locks onto a Russian FSB special forces command post in temporarily occupied Donetsk. (Source: Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Unmanned Systems Forces Robert “Magyar” Brovdi)")
![A serviceman of the unmanned and ground robotic systems unit of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment stands near a ground robotic system loaded with supplies for troops at positions, Ukraine, on March 10, 2026(Source: Getty Images)]( "A serviceman of the unmanned and ground robotic systems unit of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment stands near a ground robotic system loaded with supplies for troops at positions, Ukraine, on March 10, 2026(Source: Getty Images)")
![Illustrative image. A ground robot pulls a truck out of a forest, as Ukrainian Army soldiers of the 68th Separate Jaeger Brigade train on September 24, 2025, in the Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Illustrative image. A ground robot pulls a truck out of a forest, as Ukrainian Army soldiers of the 68th Separate Jaeger Brigade train on September 24, 2025, in the Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Wreckage of a Russian Gerbera-type unmanned aerial vehicle recovered after being downed, featuring a visible mounting system for launching an FPV drone. (Photo: Open source)]( "Wreckage of a Russian Gerbera-type unmanned aerial vehicle recovered after being downed, featuring a visible mounting system for launching an FPV drone. (Photo: Open source)")
![Ukraine’s Defense Tech Boom: $129M Raised in 2025, 2x Growth Over 2024]( "Ukraine’s Defense Tech Boom: $129M Raised in 2025, 2x Growth Over 2024")
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![Photo of Illia Kabachynskyi]( "Photo of Illia Kabachynskyi")
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- War in Ukraine
In 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukraine had just a handful of drone companies. Today, there are several hundred in drones alone. Across roughly a dozen DefenceTech subsectors, investments now run into the tens of millions of dollars. And that’s only what’s publicly visible.![A fiber-optic FPV drone hovers during testing. (Photo: iDNES)]( "How Reverse-Engineered Russian Drones Ended Up Flying for Ukraine")
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![Photo of Dariia Mykhailenko]( "Photo of Dariia Mykhailenko")
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- Latest news
Technology once used by Russian forces on the battlefield is now being turned back against them, as a Czech company supplies Ukraine with fiber-optic FPV drones developed from reverse-engineered Russian unmanned aerial vehicles.
-5b76982a9ecacd8123b885151bce601e.jpg "Ukraine’s Defense Tech Boom: $129M Raised in 2025, 2x Growth Over 2024")
-29a1a43aba23f9bb779a1ac8b98d2121.jpeg "Photo of Illia Kabachynskyi")
