Field notes, doctrine and technical writing from the people building autonomous defense systems.
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]