What is required for US defense companies to operate in Ukraine? Several US defense companies are considering starting joint production with Ukrainian enterprises inside Ukraine. The Pentagon is actively encouraging US defense contractors to engage in this cooperat... #AmmunitionFactory #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #NorthropGrumman #Pentagon #WeaponsProduction
Ukraine can replace Russia in many European market segments, particularly in pharmaceutical exports. According to NBU analysts, Ukrainian producers can replace the supply of goods and services from Russia and fill the EU market with the necessary finished products or raw materials. Prospective ways o... #DefenseTechnology #EUmarket #PharmaceuticalCompany #UkraineExport #UkrainianMetalExport
Investors are increasingly investing in Ukrainian military tech projects. In 2023, the venture fund D3, with tech billionaire Eric Schmidt, was virtually the only investor in the Ukrainian defense industry. But this year, Ukrainian military tech has received a lot of attent... #BuntarAerospace #D3VentureCapital #DefenseInvestments #DefenseTechnology #EricSchmidt #ForeignInvestor #RagnarSass #TAFdrones
A Ukrainian company has invested $3.5M in the production of UAVs in Slovakia. Oleksandr Stepura, the founder of Skyeton, which manufactures ACS-3 (Raybird-3) reconnaissance systems, said that Raybird drones began to be manufactured in Slovakia this spring. The Raybird has been ... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #DroneProduction #Raybird3 #Skyeton #Slovakia
Ukrainian drones are mining the waters near Crimea, and Britain is testing anti-drone weapons for $0.12. Ukrainian Sea Baby maritime drones are equipped with new technology to mine the waters. So far, Ukrainian drones have laid about 15 underwater mines in the waters near temporarily occupied Crimea. To ... #AntiDroneTechnology #Crimea #DefenseTechnology #MaritimeDrones #SeaBaby #Thales #WarinUkraine
NATO will expand its defense cooperation with Ukraine and share intelligence. NATO plans to expand cooperation with Ukraine in defense technologies and share additional intelligence data to combat Russia in cyber security. The agreement is planned to be finalized before the All... #CyberSecurity #DefenseTechnology #NATO #WarinUkraine
The Brave1 defense cluster has united 1,600 developments from 1,000 Ukrainian manufacturers and provided $3M in grants. The Brave1 defense technology cluster, created a year ago, has significantly accelerated the appearance of new technology at the front, the Ministry of Digital Transformation reported. The clusterR... #Brave1 #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseInvestments #DefenseTechnology #NatalyaKushnerska #WeaponsProduction
A Ukrainian FPV drone manufacturer is launching the Defense Tech Innovation Hub to accelerate the implementation of innovations at the front. The Innovation Hub from TAF Drones is designed to minimize the time between the development of promising technologies and their implementation on the front. According to estimates, the number of promi... #DefenseInnovations #DefenseTechnology #DroneProduction #InnovationHub #TAFdrones
Ukraine launches an accelerator for military startups. The Defence Builder Accelerator program was launched for startups that are interested in creating innovative solutions with military applications and who are also ready to develop projects at the mili... #DefenceBuilderAccelerator #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseStartups #DefenseTechnology #investments
Kyiv plans to build a cutting-edge defense enterprise to produce drones. A facility will be built in the Ukrainian capital – a utility company that will be subordinate to the Kyiv City Administration and be engaged in drone production. The company’s authorized ... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #DroneProduction #KyivInvestment
The government is simultaneously preparing two new financial support mechanisms for Ukrainian arms manufacturers. Ukraine’s military-industrial complex currently consists of 500 defense companies, 80% of which are private. Before the full-scale war began, private companies occupied 20% of the market. In 2023, Ukr... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #oschadbank #UkraineMilitaryIndustry
What will the EU’s new defense and industrial strategy give Ukraine? Integration and support of the Ukrainian defense industry have become one of the goals of the European Defense Industrial Strategy (EDIS). As reported by the Ministry of Strategic Industries, the stra... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #EDIP #EUdefense
The EU presents a new defense strategy project: A plan to carry out up to 50% of defense purchases within the bloc. The EU plans to minimize purchases of military goods from outside the EU by 2035 to ensure that 30% to 50% of the EU defense market’s trade is conducted within the Union. Mechanisms will also be devel... #DefenseProjects #DefenseTechnology #EUdefense #WeaponsProduction
Ukraine has increased its drone production by 900% in six months and is preparing to mass-produce analogs of Russian Lancets. Ukraine is actively increasing the production of drones, which find a wide range of applications – from replacing artillery shells, which are in short supply, to striking ships of the Russian Bl... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #DroneProduction #UkrainianDrone
Arms should become Ukraine’s main export product, according to Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries. Reporting on the first 100 days of work as the head of the Ministry, he emphasized that the priority moving forward is increasing the... #AlexanderKamyshin #DefenseTechnology #UkraineWeaponSales #WeaponsProduction
Ukraine has expanded its drone army by adding another drone model. Ukraine’s military has added another drone model to its arsenal, said defense minister Oleksiy Reznikov. He announced on Wednesday that the Ukrainian military is adopting a new model of First Pe... #DefenseTechnology #FPVdrones #OleksiyReznikov #UkrainianDrone #ValeriyBorovyk
The first Ukrainian demining machine is ready for mass production. The first piece of domestic demining equipment, which was developed by a Kharkiv manufacturer, has passed certification. The manufacturing company received a certificate and declaration of conformity,... #DefenseTechnology #DeminingMachine #DeminingUkraine #YuliyaSvyridenko
The war has transformed Ukraine from a farming country to a defense tech nation. Ukraine, known for agriculture and other heavy industry, is not an obvious setting for drone innovation. The necessities of war, however, have turned the country into a kind of super lab of invention,... #Brave1 #DefenseTechnology #EricSchmidt #UkrainianDrone #WarinUkraine
The government has allocated UAH 40B for investment in drone production. This year, the Cabinet of Ministers supplied UAH 40B for the production of Ukrainian drones, said Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a forum dedicated to the anniversary of the Army of Drones project... #DefenseTechnology #DenysShmyhal #UkrainianDrone #WarinUkraine
Ukraine and NATO have updated their cooperation format in innovation. During a meeting in Brussels, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation Mykhailo Fedorov and NATO Deputy Secretary General David van Weel launched the High-Level Innovation Dialogue between... #Brave1 #DavidVanWeel #DefenseTechnology #MykhailoFedorov #UkraineNATO
A new defense technology accelerator has been launched in Ukraine. An accelerator for defense startups, Dare to Defend Democracy (D3), will focus on teams and projects in the early stages, concentrating in Ukraine. The fund’s initial volume was $10M, but it has alrea... #ArmsTechnology #DareToDefendDemocracy #DefenseTechnology #UkraineArmedForces
The Ministry of Defense has signed contracts worth UAH 46B with Ukrainian companies. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has signed 428 contracts to purchase food, fuel, lubricants, and other supplies with Ukrainian suppliers and manufacturers for a total of UAH 46B. Specifically, the ... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #DefenseUkraine
Key components of the Strategic Defense Framework. During the next five years, bilateral defense relations will include a full training program to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression; assistance in carrying out reforms in the defense sector in acc... #DefenseTechnology #DefenseUkraine
Defense industry cooperation was discussed on Saturday during a parallel meeting between the Turkish Defence Minister, Hulusi Akar, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Andriy Taran . At the time of Zelenskiy’s last visit to Turkey last October, Vadim Nozdriya, the General Manager of Ukrspetseksport, announced that Ukraine would like to purchase 48 Bayraktar TB2 combat drones. Th... #Bayraktar #DefenseTechnology
