In a secret brick workshop on the outskirts of a frontline town in eastern Ukraine, soldiers Bohdan and Vlad are hard at work making killer drones. The small factory has a 3D printer to make the components needed to turn technology designed for fun or aerial photography into a deadly weapon. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles in Russia’s war in Ukraine has escalated rapidly in the past two years.
” Traditional players, jostled by the increased competition and all too aware of the industrial challenges, are responding — often by teaming up with the newcomers or taking over their smaller rivals. There are “various ways of establishing collaborations, partnerships, doing direct or indirect investments, to complement internal technology development,” says Johansson of Saab, which last year took a 5 per cent stake in Helsing.