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Oct 13, 20267 min read

Autonomy is architecture, not a feature

Autonomy isn’t a feature “to be had.” It is the core architecture thing – the drone can be autonomous or it’s not.

DK NEJET

Sep 30, 20267 min read

Drones Are Mathematics: What Ukraine’s Drone Commander Wants NATO to Understand

In April 2022, Robert Brovdi was defending the Kherson sector with 27 men, pinned down by Russian artillery and unable to see enemy positions. An old-school commander told him drones were nonsense and sent his team to scout the gullies on foot. Four years later, Brovdi — known by his call sign “Magyar” — is […]

DK NEJET

Sep 14, 20265 min read

The Next Decade’s Best Bet: Why Defense Tech Is the New Software

Thesis: The market still prices defense like hardware. It’s wrong. The real value is shifting to software-defined, mass-producible systems—and the window to back this shift is open now. For two decades, software company valuations tracked headcount. More engineers meant more billable hours. Headcount was the product. That model is breaking. One specialist armed with the […]

DK NEJET

Sep 11, 20262 min read

MSPO 2026: What We Took Away from Kielce

MSPO 2026 in Kielce wrapped up on 11 September, and the direction of travel was clear: attention keeps shifting toward coordinated, software-defined systems rather than standalone platforms. DK NEJET attended alongside our partners. Four days of back-to-back meetings confirmed strong, specific interest in one question: how do autonomy and mass-produced defence systems fit together? The […]

Events

Aug 25, 20261 min read

DK NEJET in Oslo – We’re Exhibiting at FSi Exhibition 2026

This year, DK NEJET is exhibiting at the FSi Exhibition, Norway’s annual defence and security industry gathering, taking place 25-26 August at NOVA Spektrum in Lillestrøm. Organised by Forsvars- og Sikkerhetsindustriens Forening, FSi brings together Norwegian government ministries, the armed forces, police, allied representatives, and the country’s defence industry. We’ll be there to show our […]

DK NEJET

Aug 12, 20262 min read

DK NEJET Group Hosts Latvian Minister of Defence

Visit reinforced the group’s commitment to building the future of European defence together, strengthening cooperation across Ukraine, Latvia, Norway and the wider European defence industrial base. DK NEJET hosted Raivis Melnis, Latvian Minister of Defence, at the production facility of DK UNITY, a DK NEJET Group company. The visit gave the Minister a direct look […]

DK NEJET

Aug 11, 202611 min read

The Illusion of a Magic Button: Why Autonomy Alone Won’t Change the Battlefield

The European defense market is pouring money into autonomous systems, which is good. However, the danger lies in a seductive myth that all it takes is to buy the technology, hand the military a “box with a magic button,” and watch it solve manpower shortages, electronic warfare, and the need for faster decisions. The truth […]

DK NEJET

Jul 29, 20264 min read

Ukraine’s defense-tech is ready to scale. Export rules aren’t.

For Ukraine’s defense‑tech sector, the main bottleneck today is not engineering talent or demand from partners; it is the export system itself. Our CEO explains why the current framework slows down growth, and what changes could unlock Ukraine’s full potential on the global defense market. The core problem: slow, unpredictable exports For a long time, […]

DK NEJET

Jul 17, 20263 min read

“Drones Should Fight, Not People”… Ask the Person Flying Drones What They Think

I was talking to a drone operator recently, a woman who has spent more hours than she can count guiding FPVs toward their targets, and I mentioned the phrase everyone in Ukraine seems to say now. The drones should do the fighting, not people. I expected her to nod along, but she pushed back. “I […]

DK NEJET

Jul 15, 20265 min read

How systems actually scale

What three recent European drone deals reveal about the real bottleneck Three announcements landed within ten days of each other this month. None of them were about buying more drones. If you read those articles individually, they look like routine funding news. Read together, they describe a shift in what European buyers think they’re actually […]

DK NEJET

Jul 8, 20268 min read

You Can’t Shoot a $20,000 Drone With a $1 Million Missile Forever

The asymmetry everyone talks about is told from the attacker’s side of the ledger. The more urgent problem is the defender’s. You can intercept every threat and still lose — if each interception costs more than the thing it stopped, and the magazine runs dry before the adversary does. There is a number that has […]

DK NEJET

Jun 24, 20265 min read

Eurosatory 2026: What Our Team Took Away From Paris

Five days at the world’s largest land-defence exhibition, in the words of the people who were on the ground. Eurosatory 2026 ran from 15 to 19 June at Paris-Nord Villepinte — five days, more than two thousand exhibitors, and a floor that was bigger again than the last edition. Most of the week was spent […]

Events

Jun 8, 20263 min read

We’re Going to Paris for Eurosatory 2026

Next week, part of the DK NEJET team will be at Paris-Nord Villepinte for Eurosatory 2026, the world’s largest land and air-land defence exhibition. The scale keeps getting bigger and bigger every year, and it has been going on for 59 years now. This year’s event will gather more than 2,200 exhibitors from 65 countries, […]

DK NEJET

Jun 3, 20267 min read

Field Notes #01: The Loop Is the Advantage

Field Notes is a recurring series from DK NEJET. Each entry takes one real problem from a contested electronic-warfare environment and follows it through the loop – from the operator who hit it, to the engineer who answered it, to the version that flew next. This is the first. A few weeks ago, one of […]

Field Notes

Jun 1, 20262 min read

Drone Summit 2026: Defense buyers asking for systems instead of platforms

DK NEJET reports a clear shift in European procurement logic: combat-proven hardware is now table stakes — the decisive question is the software layer that coordinates it. RIGA, June 1 2026 — DK NEJET, a Ukrainian-Latvian defense technology group, concluded Drone Summit Riga 2026, reporting a marked change in how European defense organizations approach autonomous […]

Press Releases

May 25, 202611 min read

Europe Is Rearming. The Question Is Whether It’s Buying the Right Thing.

NATO budgets are surging. Hardware contracts are being signed. But the real capability gap in European defense isn’t measured in platforms — it’s measured in decision speed under adversarial conditions. The knowledge to close it already exists – it was forged in Ukraine. Something significant is happening in European defense right now, and it’s easy […]

DK NEJET

May 11, 20267 min read

Beyond the Platform: Coordinated Systems are the Future of European Defense

The biggest security challenges of 2026 won’t be solved by perfecting a single drone, jet, or ground system. No matter how advanced, a lone asset is inherently limited—it can’t be everywhere at once. Threats, by contrast, are distributed, relentless, and built to overwhelm linear thinking. Here’s what Christian Brose, the author of The Kill Chain […]

DK NEJET

Oct 13, 20251 min read

Safe Strike: Remote Control from Cover

In modern drone warfare, the real game-changer isn’t just the firepower—it’s keeping the operator alive and focused. FPV strikes have reshaped the battlefield, but too many pilots still expose themselves in open fields or on rooftops, turning a tactical edge into a liability. The fix? Ground control stations that let you run the show from […]

DK NEJET

Jun 27, 20255 min read

The FPV Drone That Outran the Jammers: A Frontline Evolution

Ten years ago, “precision strike” meant a million‑dollar missile guided by a handful of satellites. Today, it can mean a swarm of cheap FPV drones, steered by a single AI‑driven operator. Europe is racing to scale this new kind of defense—and the companies that own the swarm‑control brain, not just the airframes, are quietly becoming […]

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