Denmark buys nine military robots from Ukrainian-founded company
Dropla 4×4 unmanned ground vehicle (photo: FMI KOM)
The Danish Armed Forces have received nine Dropla 4×4 unmanned ground vehicles. They will be used to train drone operators, including conscripts, at the Danish Defense Drone Centre, according to the Danish Ministry of Defense Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (FMI).
What Denmark purchased
The Danish Defense Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (FMI) said on September 28 that it had purchased nine Dropla 4×4 unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for the Danish Defense Drone Centre. The agency's statement did not disclose the value of the order.
The Danish version of the Dropla 4×4 was initially delivered without a weapons mount. FMI is already exploring the possibility of equipping the vehicles with additional equipment. This includes a remotely operated weapon station that allows a soldier to aim and fire a machine gun from a safe distance, as well as communications equipment.
Dropla 4×4 unmanned ground vehicle (photo: FMI KOM)
The agency said these plans are based on Ukraine's experience and Denmark's own testing of other unmanned ground vehicles.
Colonel Thomas Ogendaal Knudsen, head of FMI's Land Division, stressed that unmanned systems are developing rapidly. Therefore, he said, the military needs to gain experience with them now and incorporate them into soldier training.
The new vehicles allow the drone center to work with unmanned ground vehicles while also exploring how the technology could be used by the Armed Forces in the future.
Founded in 2023 as a Danish-Ukrainian partnership, Dropla Tech develops artificial intelligence-based solutions for threat detection and autonomous mine clearance. The company is headquartered in Odense, while its research and development units operate in Ukraine.
The company was founded by four Ukrainians: Viacheslav Shvaidak, Dmytro Zarubin, Maksym Tkachenko, and Illarion Karnaukh, Defender Media reported.
The company's flagship product is the Blue Eyes system. It is an autonomous explosive ordnance detection system that uses artificial intelligence models trained on real combat data.
In August 2025, Dropla Tech raised €2.4 million in investment from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO), Maj Invest, and Final Frontier.
In September, during the Vivaldi offensive operation in the northern Donetsk region, the Third Army Corps used kamikaze unmanned ground systems more than 10 kilometers behind Russian lines for the first time in the world. They were delivered by heavy bomber drones of the Third Assault Brigade.
The Third Army Corps also converted Soviet BTR-60 armored personnel carriers into large kamikaze drones that were used to destroy Russian fortifications.
