Ukraine and Netherlands to seek innovations that could change course of war

"Developing cooperation with European partners in the research sector is a path toward breakthrough innovations for the battlefield. We already have cases where Ukrainian engineers, together with the international scientific community, have created technologies that will very soon change the course of the war," the minister wrote in his post.

Fedorov explained that Brave1 has signed a memorandum with the Dutch institute TNO, marking the first international R&D partnership for the cluster. The minister emphasized that this is an important step for the development of Ukraine’s defense tech ecosystem:

• TNO employs thousands of scientists and engineers across various fields, including AI, drones, air defense, and radar;

• The collaboration will focus on leveraging top-level expertise, which Ukraine currently lacks;

• A separate initiative will work on testing products and prototypes developed by the institute’s scientists.

A game-changer is a term used to describe something or someone that radically alters the rules of the game, having a major impact on a situation and potentially changing the entire course of events. Essentially, it is something that makes the previous state of affairs obsolete or less effective by introducing something fundamentally new.

Earlier, we reported that the defense cluster Brave1 completed the final stage of testing strike drones that are resistant to electronic warfare (EW) and capable of hitting targets up to 40 km away. According to Minister Fedorov, shortly after the tests are completed, these drones will be sent to the battlefield.

Ukrainian engineers are developing new strike drones designed to hunt Shaheds. They operate on the principle of air defense missiles — detonating near Russian drones and destroying them with shrapnel.