# DECODING: Ukraine forges its weapons — 1,000 systems codified, 89% made in Ukraine in 2026

> In the middle of a high-intensity war, Ukraine has crossed a silent but strategic threshold: 1,000 new weapons systems officially codified and certified since the start of 2026. That figure did not make the front pages of the major Western media. There was no ceremony. No speech from a podium. Just engineers, soldiers, and entrepreneurs building a sovereign war machine, piece b

- Author: Maxime Marquette
- Publisher: MadMax (https://mad-max.co)
- Section: Analysis
- Published: 2026-06-29
- Canonical URL: https://mad-max.co/en/article/decryptage-l-ukraine-forge-ses-armes-1-000-systemes-codifies-89-made-in-ukraine-

## Introduction: The secret forge of a nation at war

### A quiet record that changes everything

In the middle of a high-intensity war, **Ukraine** has crossed a silent but strategic threshold: **1,000 new weapons systems** officially codified and certified since the start of **2026**. That figure did not make the front pages of the major Western media. There was no ceremony. No speech from a podium. Just engineers, soldiers, and entrepreneurs building a sovereign war machine, piece by piece, patent by patent, drone by drone.

This is not a trivial achievement. In **2025**, over the same period, **Ukraine** had codified only **659 systems** — meaning a **50% increase in a single year**. That leap is not the product of chance. It is the result of a deliberate policy: transforming a country that was fighting with recycled Soviet equipment into a defense industrial power capable of producing its own weapons, at its own pace, according to its own doctrines.

### The Ukrainian military-industrial complex steps out of the shadows

The **Ukrainian Ministry of Defense** confirmed the data: of those **1,000 systems**, **892 are of Ukrainian origin** — **89% of the total**, up from just **69.6%** the previous year. **Ukraine** is transitioning from a client of Western arms industries to an autonomous producer capable of equipping its own brigades without depending entirely on foreign deliveries.

That shift carries a deep military significance. Every **certified system** is a system Ukrainian forces can deploy, repair, and scale. Every **codified drone** is one they will no longer need to beg from **Washington**, **Berlin**, or **Paris**. **Ukraine** has begun manufacturing its own superiority.

*There is a cruel beauty in this transformation. The Ukraine of 2026, bombed every night, forges new weapons every day. Pain and creation — two opposing forces coexisting in the same country, at the same moment. These are not statistics. These are thousands of lives fighting to exist.*

*There is something deeply moving about the figure of 1,000. It is not a cold statistic. It is proof that under the bombs, a nation can still invent. That the pressure of survival generates not paralysis, but innovation. Ukraine in 2026 resembles nothing that military history textbooks have ever documented. It is a war laboratory unlike any other in the world.*

## The structure of the 1,000: what Ukraine has actually built

### More than 300 drones in a single catalog

The most populated category is **unmanned aerial systems**. With more than **300 certified UAVs**, **Ukraine** has assembled the most diversified active military drone catalog of any contemporary belligerent. These systems range from small **kamikaze FPV** drones to long-range reconnaissance platforms, **Shahed** interceptors, and deep-strike platforms.

In **May 2026** alone, the **Ministry of Defense** certified nearly **60 new drone models**, including specialized systems like the **Shvidun**, described as an effective interceptor against Russian **Shahed**-type drones. The catalog also includes the **Tin**, **Tur**, **Mamba**, **Paliy**, **D'Artagnan**, and **Lupinis** — names that sound like a swashbuckling novel, but are real machines of war, combat-tested, deployed at the front.

### 188 munitions types, 128 communication systems, 60 electronic warfare systems

Beyond drones, the diversity of the Ukrainian catalog is striking. **188 new types of ammunition** have been certified — from precision shells to special charges for urban assault. **128 tactical communication systems**, designed to withstand Russian jamming, are now available to frontline units. And more than **60 electronic warfare systems** have been certified, reflecting the growing importance of **EW** in this conflict.

Those categories are joined by **50 ground robots** — including the remotely controlled **Gnom**, **Primar-Killer**, **Vepr**, **Plyushch+**, and **Ratel X** platforms — capable of conducting combat, reconnaissance, mine-laying, and even evacuation missions directly under fire. And approximately **50 next-generation armored vehicles** complete an industrial picture that would have seemed unimaginable in **2022**.

*When I read the list of these robots, these drones, these EW systems, I think of all the times Western experts predicted Ukraine's collapse "within six weeks." Those experts were looking at Ukraine through the lens of the past. They did not see what Ukrainian engineers were building in converted workshops, night after night, while missiles fell outside.*

## May 2026: 175 systems in a single month

### The May record and what it reveals

The month of **May 2026** was exceptional even within this context of sustained performance. In thirty days, the **Ukrainian Ministry of Defense** officially certified and approved for service in the **Ukrainian Armed Forces 175 new models** of military hardware and equipment. Of those **175 systems**, nearly **93% are the result of the work of Ukrainian designers and manufacturers**.

That **93% domestic-origin rate** in May actually exceeds the annual average of **89%**. It reflects accelerated industrial maturity. The **Ministry** stated that the figure "demonstrates the rapid development and high level of autonomy of the domestic military-industrial complex." That is not propaganda. These are systems in service, combat-tested, used by soldiers who need results.

### The doctrine of continuous certification

What is remarkable about the Ukrainian approach is the pace of certification. Where other armies take years to certify a new system — audits, simulated-condition trials, regulatory reviews — **Ukraine** has developed an agile process: test in combat, certify on an accelerated timeline, deploy. This is a doctrine forced on them by war, but one that produces results the world's wealthiest defense industries struggle to replicate.

In **2023**, **Ukraine** was certifying an average of one or two systems per week. By **2026**, it is certifying several dozen per week. The curve is exponential. And contrary to what Western rhetoric sometimes implies, this acceleration does not sacrifice quality: systems that fail in combat are withdrawn quickly, and battlefield feedback feeds directly back into improvements.

*This doctrine of continuous certification is lean manufacturing applied to national survival. Ukrainian engineers do not have the luxury of theoretical perfection. They have the pragmatism of necessity. And paradoxically, that pragmatism produces the most radical innovations. War is a brutal accelerator — but it is an accelerator.*

## Drones: 60 new models in May, an exploding industry

### From dependence to sovereignty in twelve months

In **2022**, **Ukraine** imported virtually all of its military drones — Turkish **Bayraktar TB2s**, American **Switchblades**, repurposed Chinese commercial components. By **2026**, it is one of the world's leading manufacturers of combat drones. That transformation in four years has no historical equivalent. Not even **Israel** at the dawn of its arms industry achieved a ramp-up so rapid.

The **60 new drone models** certified in May reflect a diversified industry: small fiber-optic **FPV** drones for close-quarters combat, AI-powered reconnaissance drones, autonomous **Shahed** interceptors, deep-strike systems capable of hitting targets several hundred kilometers behind Russian lines. Each segment addresses a tactical need identified at the front. Each certification is an answer to a real challenge.

### The ecosystem behind the numbers

Behind those **1,000 systems** lies an industrial ecosystem in permanent construction. Hundreds of specialized **Ukrainian SMEs**, startups founded since **2022**, repurposed large companies, militarized university laboratories, and volunteer engineers who repair and improve systems recovered from the battlefield. This network is decentralized, resilient, and difficult to target with Russian strikes — deliberately so.

The Ukrainian government's **Brave1** program plays a central role in this dynamic. By **2026**, more than **4,000 defense projects** are registered under this technology acceleration program — a figure that staggers when you consider that most of these projects were born under conditions of total war. Innovation under the bombs is not a paradox. It is a necessity transformed into an advantage.

*The Brave1 program fascinated me even before I grasped its true scale. 4,000 active defense projects. In Ukraine. During a war. That is the equivalent of having 4,000 startups in a single sector — national survival. No Silicon Valley incubator has ever produced such a density of innovation with such immediate, concrete stakes.*

## Ground robots: a quiet revolution

### 50 robotic systems reshaping the doctrine of assault

The **50 ground robotic systems** certified in **2026** may represent the most profound shift in how **Ukraine** conducts the war. These remote-controlled platforms allow assault, reconnaissance, and logistical support operations to be conducted without exposing soldiers at the front line. In a conflict where **FPV drones** make every visible human movement a potential target, robotizing the battlefield has become a survival necessity.

The **Gnom** can infiltrate trenches. The **Primar-Killer** targets equipment at a distance. The **Vepr** can evacuate the wounded under enemy fire. The **Ratel X** conducts reconnaissance missions in dense urban zones. These systems do not replace the soldier — they protect him, multiply his reach, give him eyes and arms in places where going in person would be suicidal.

### 12,500 robotic missions in May 2026

In **May 2026**, Ukrainian forces conducted more than **12,500 missions** using ground robotic systems. That staggering figure illustrates the speed at which this technology has moved from the laboratory to the battlefield. Eighteen months ago, these platforms were prototypes. Today, they are an integral part of the daily tactical framework of dozens of Ukrainian brigades.

The **United States**, which has invested billions in military robotics for decades, has never deployed at this scale in real combat conditions. **Ukraine** is proving, at the cost of blood and ingenuity, what the next generation of land warfare will actually look like. And that lesson is being studied carefully by every army in the world.

*12,500 robotic missions in a single month. I want that number to land with its full weight. These are not exercises. These are not simulations. These are 12,500 instances of a robot going where a human could have died. 12,500 soldiers potentially saved thanks to Ukrainian engineers working in conditions I dare not imagine.*

## Electronic warfare: 60 EW systems to hold spectrum dominance

### The invisible battle that decides the visibility of everything else

More than **60 electronic warfare systems** certified in **2026** — that figure is arguably the most doctrinally significant of all. **EW** has become the meta-game of this conflict: whoever controls the electromagnetic spectrum controls whether drones can fly, whether missiles can guide themselves, whether communications can function. Every new Ukrainian **EW** system is a direct response to a Russian device identified in the field.

The stakes are immense. Russian fiber-optic **FPV** drones, immune to radio jamming, have forced **Ukraine** to develop non-electronic countermeasures. But for radio-, GPS-, or satellite-guided systems, Ukrainian **EW** capabilities have proved remarkably effective. In **May 2026**, Ukrainian forces neutralized more than **4,000 Shahed-type drones** — a **27% increase over April** — by combining missiles and **EW** systems.

### The cascade effect on Russian strike strategy

The growing sophistication of **Ukrainian EW systems** has a direct consequence on Russian attack doctrine. **Moscow** is forced to permanently increase the quantity of missiles and drones launched in the hope of getting a few through. That war of attrition is costly for **Russia**: every saturation attempt demands resources, workers, and components — often imported through sanctions-evading supply chains.

The result: **Ukraine** is imposing on **Russia** a technological war of attrition that **Moscow** did not anticipate. **Putin** believed he would conquer a country in three days. He finds himself in a battle of engineers where he loses technological ground every month that he will not recoup. The **60 EW systems** certified in **2026** are not figures in an annual report. They are invisible victories in a war the world often watches through the wrong lens.

*Electronic warfare is the least-covered frontier of this conflict. The media shows explosions, destroyed armor, cities in ruins. But the real battle plays out in the electromagnetic spectrum, on frequencies nobody sees. And there, silently, Ukraine is building an advantage that will translate into years of operational superiority.*

## Ammunition: 188 types, from artillery to surgical precision

### Reinventing the arsenal under the constraints of war

The codification of **188 new types of ammunition** reflects a complex reality: **Ukraine** cannot always wait for the **West** to deliver what it needs. So it manufactures. It adapts. It invents. Ukrainian artillery shells compatible with **NATO** calibers but produced locally. Special anti-drone charges. Optically guided precision munitions to minimize collateral damage in urban zones.

Some of these **188 munitions** are direct improvements on Soviet-era ammunition recovered from pre-war stocks. Others are entirely original creations, with no equivalent in Western arsenals. **Ukraine** has developed in particular munitions specifically designed to attack Russian electronic warfare systems — a capability few armies in the world possess.

### The stakes of ammunition sovereignty

Ammunition supply was, at the start of the conflict, one of Ukraine's principal vulnerabilities. Ukrainian brigades were consuming artillery shells faster than either **Ukraine** or its allies could produce them. Two years later, thanks to a massive industrial effort and the growth of the private defense sector, **Ukraine** has considerably reduced that dependence.

The **188 new types of ammunition** certified in **2026** represent a strategic diversification. Not simply more ammunition, but more varied ammunition, better adapted to the realities of the Ukrainian battlefield. That diversification makes the **Ukrainian army** less predictable for the enemy — and more dangerous.

*I remember the 2023 reports on Ukraine's "ammunition shortage." American generals begging Congress to act. Ukrainian soldiers rationing their shells to one or two per hour. To see 188 types of ammunition certified in 2026 is to measure the distance traveled. Brutal. Painful. But traveled.*

## Communications: 128 systems to hold firm under jamming

### In modern war, the network is the nerve

In a war where electronic jamming has become a weapon as formidable as artillery, the ability to communicate under pressure is existential. The **128 tactical communication systems** certified in **2026** address that critical need. They cover a broad spectrum: encrypted communications for unit commanders, data links for drones, inter-arm coordination systems resistant to Russian jamming.

What distinguishes the new generations of Ukrainian communication systems is their native design for the Russian **EW** environment. They are not adapted from conventional-war equipment and then tested against jamming. They are designed from the ground up to operate in a **hostile electronic warfare environment**. That is a fundamental conceptual difference that gives Ukrainian forces a durable tactical advantage.

### Resilience as network doctrine

One of the major lessons of this conflict is that communication network resilience is as important as strike capability. A unit that can communicate under fire can coordinate. A unit that cannot is blind, deaf, and condemned to dangerous improvisation. **Ukraine** has integrated that lesson into the architecture of its **128 new systems**.

These systems include fiber-optic communication solutions for fixed positions, satellite backup links, and short-range mesh networks that allow assault teams to maintain coordination without emitting on detectable frequencies. That level of doctrinal sophistication is not the product of a five-year plan drawn up in comfortable offices. It is the product of thousands of soldiers who survived — or didn't — based on the quality of their communications.

*The 128 communication systems are also a human story. Behind every protocol, every frequency, every encryption scheme, there is an engineer who listened to a soldier explain why he could not call for reinforcements under fire. Ukrainian technology in 2026 is deeply humanist in its origins: it is born of real needs, expressed by men who die if they are not heard.*

## The armor of tomorrow: 50 sovereign armored vehicles

### Armored vehicles born for this specific war

The certification of nearly **50 new armored vehicle models** in **2026** marks **Ukraine**'s entry into the ranks of major armored vehicle-producing nations. These vehicles are not copies of foreign systems. They are designed for the geography, topography, and specific tactical conditions of the Ukrainian conflict — the flat fields of **Donbas**, the destroyed roads of **Zaporizhzhia**, the urban zones of **Kharkiv**.

Some of these armored vehicles natively integrate anti-drone defenses: improved **Cope Cage** structures, onboard jamming systems, optical sensors enabling early detection of **FPV** drones. Others are light, high-mobility vehicles optimized for infiltrations and rapid withdrawals under intense drone surveillance. Every design reflects a lesson learned in blood.

### The transition toward armored autonomy

In **2022**, **Ukraine** depended entirely on Western deliveries for its modern armored vehicle needs: American **Bradley**s, German **Leopard 2**s, German **Marder**s, French **AMX-10RC**s. By **2026**, it produces its own range. That transition reduces the logistical vulnerability tied to transatlantic supply chains and the delays between political decision and actual delivery.

The strategic stakes are visible: a **Ukraine** capable of producing its own armored vehicles can sustain a long war without depending on Western political cycles. When the **US Congress** paralyzes itself, when European elections shift coalitions, a sovereign **Ukraine** keeps producing. That is the deepest lesson of these **1,000 systems**: industrial independence is not a luxury. It is the foundation of geopolitical survival.

*I look at the list of Ukraine's 2026 armored vehicles and think of those from 2022 — worn-out Soviet T-64s, BTRs at the end of their service life. The distance traveled in four years is dizzying. This is not simply a war effort. It is an industrial renaissance under the most extreme conditions imaginable. And that renaissance deserves to be celebrated by the West with the same intensity as a battlefield victory.*

## The Middle Strike program and the 2,000 strikes of May

### Striking Russian command posts at industrial scale

Among the operational results of **May 2026**, the **Middle Strike** program stands out for its scale: nearly **2,000 strikes** in a single month, including **414 against Russian command posts** and headquarters. This program embodies the doctrine of deep precision strike — reach the enemy's brains, not only its muscles.

By destroying command posts, **Ukraine** is not only destroying buildings or vehicles. It is destroying chains of command, experienced officers, coordination systems that take weeks to rebuild. This is a strategy of competence attrition — targeting Russian organizational intelligence rather than matching it in a frontal mass battle.

### Precision as a force multiplier

The **2,000 Middle Strike** hits in May were made possible by the combination of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems with the newly certified weapons systems. Reconnaissance drones identify a target. Strike drones or precision munitions neutralize it. Communication systems transmit confirmation. The complete cycle can take less than twenty minutes.

That short-cycle capability — from detection to strike — is one of the most precious tactical advantages **Ukraine** holds over the **Russian army**, whose targeting processes are often bureaucratic and slow. Ukraine's reaction speed flows directly from the diversity and quality of the systems certified in **2026**. Each certification is not an administrative event. It is an operational capability added.

*414 command posts struck in a single month. I would like the Russian strategists who planned the "three-day special operation" to read that figure. Slowly. And think about it. Because what they face is not a country defending itself. It is a war machine that learns, certifies, produces, and strikes at a tempo they never modeled.*

## Financing: a defense industry that attracts capital

### The private sector as the engine of innovation

Behind the **1,000 certified systems**, there is an economic reality as important as the technical one: **Ukraine** has succeeded in attracting massive private capital into its defense industry. Investment funds, entrepreneurs, and Ukrainian diaspora communities around the world have financed hundreds of defense startups since **2022**. In some segments, that private capital flow now exceeds state funding.

The model is unprecedented: a war economy that partially behaves like a startup ecosystem. Companies that succeed in certifying their systems gain access to military public procurement markets. Those that fail close and reinvest in other projects. Economic natural selection accelerates defense innovation at a speed that no traditional state program could have matched.

### International cooperation as a technology lever

**International cooperation** also plays a role in this industrial success. Technology transfers with **NATO** partners, co-developments with European and American companies, programs training Ukrainian engineers abroad — all of it feeds an ecosystem that is Ukrainian in its funding and direction, but international in its sources of inspiration and expertise.

That technological hybridization is a strength. **Ukraine** is not reinventing the wheel in every domain. It takes the best available solutions, adapts them to its specific needs, and industrializes them at the speed of war. That is a rare industrial intelligence, even among peacetime nations.

*Ukraine's defense economy is fascinating. It blends the brutality of military urgency with the creativity of a startup ecosystem. In that unlikely mix, engineers who never served in the army design weapons that soldiers deploy the following day. War erases boundaries between worlds — and sometimes, from that confusion, emerge solutions no one had anticipated.*

## The asymmetric advantage: how the 1,000 systems change the balance of power

### Quantity and quality: the myth of Russian superiority

**Russia** has long presented quantity as its strategic superiority. More soldiers, more tanks, more shells, more missiles. But the **1,000 Ukrainian-certified systems** illustrate a truth that Russian strategists refuse to acknowledge: technological quality and capability diversity can offset numerical inferiority. **Ukraine** is not trying to have more tanks than **Russia**. It is trying to have systems that **Russia** can neither destroy nor replicate fast enough.

The balance of power in **2026** is no longer that of **2022**. **Ukraine** has closed or reversed several of the initial asymmetries. In the domain of drones, it is now superior in quality and competitive in quantity. In the EW domain, it has developed capabilities that even **NATO** armies have not yet fully tested in combat. In the domain of ground robotics, it is ahead of virtually every other army in the world.

### The threat of Russian replication

It would be dangerous to celebrate too quickly. **Russia** observes, studies, and imitates. Its arms industry, despite sanctions, continues to function thanks to parallel component imports from Asia and technology transfers from Iran and North Korea. Ukrainian systems recovered on the battlefield are analyzed, reverse-engineered, replicated. The replication delay varies by system — from a few months for simple drones to several years for sophisticated EW systems.

That is why Ukraine's certification pace is so important. By certifying **1,000 systems** per year, **Ukraine** ensures that **Russia** is always chasing. By the time **Moscow** successfully replicates one system, **Kyiv** has already certified twenty others. This is a technological war of attrition, and for now, **Ukraine** holds the initiative.

*The threat of Russian replication is real, and I prefer not to minimize it. Russia has the human resources, the factories, and the engineers to imitate what it observes. What prevents it is pace. And Ukraine maintains that pace thanks to engineers working at a tempo their Russian counterparts cannot replicate inside a centralized bureaucratic system. Freedom innovates faster than fear.*

## The outlook: toward 2,000 systems in 2027?

### The exponential trajectory and its limits

If the trend holds, **Ukraine** could certify nearly **2,000 systems** in **2027**. That projection is not fanciful: the **+50% per year** curve observed since **2025** is sustained by now-established institutional structures, growing funding, and a pool of engineers trained under the pressure of war. But limits exist.

The primary limit is not technological — it is human. **Ukraine** lacks qualified engineers, specialized technicians, and test pilots. Mobilization has absorbed a portion of that workforce into combat units. The Ukrainian diaspora abroad represents a reservoir, but its return is neither guaranteed nor immediate. The qualified labor question is the most serious constraint facing the next phase of the Ukrainian defense industry.

### The Ukrainian model as a global reference

Regardless of its future trajectory, the Ukrainian model is already becoming a reference for defense planners around the world. **NATO** armies are studying its certification acceleration processes. **Asia-Pacific** states that fear Chinese aggression are watching how a country with a modest economy can build a sovereign defense industry in a time of crisis. Defense startups in a dozen countries are attempting to replicate the **Brave1** model.

These **1,000 systems** are not only weapons to win the war against **Russia**. They are the prototype of a new model of national defense — agile, decentralized, private-public, intensely grounded in battlefield feedback. And that model will survive the war, when a peaceful **Ukraine** must rebuild its country with the same intensity with which it defended it.

*I often think about what post-war Ukraine will look like. A country with a thousand engineers who know how to build drones, EW systems, robots. A country with one of the most advanced defense ecosystems in the world. A country that will have proven, to the entire world, that industrial sovereignty is not an option — it is the foundation of everything else. That Ukraine will be formidable in peacetime.*

## The soldiers' testimony: what the systems change in the daily reality of the front

### Tools that save lives, not only battles

Behind every certification number is a soldier holding a different weapon than the one he used six months earlier. Frontline feedback from Ukrainian units describes a qualitative transformation in the daily reality of combat: fewer direct exposures thanks to robots, better communications under jamming thanks to the new systems, the ability to strike targets at distances that were out of reach the previous year. These changes are measured in lives saved as much as in meters gained.

Commander **Syrskyi** warned his troops not to let their guard down despite the progress. **"Don't relax — Russia is also improving,"** he stated in June **2026**. That is the mark of a lucid command: celebrating advances without deceiving oneself about the duration and difficulty of the task. The **1,000 systems** are a milestone, not a finish line.

### The human asymmetry: training to use

Certifying a system is only half the work. The other half is training soldiers to use it effectively. By **2026**, the **Ukrainian army** has developed accelerated training programs that can qualify a drone operator in two weeks and an **EW** systems technician in six weeks. Those timelines are revolutionary by traditional military standards, which are measured in months or years.

That rapid training capability is itself a strategic advantage. When a new generation of **fiber-optic drones** is certified, **Ukraine** can train hundreds of operators in weeks. When **Russia** attempts to replicate the same system, it must also train its operators — in a less agile bureaucratic system, with inferior pedagogical resources. The training advantage compounds the technological advantage.

## Conclusion: 1,000 systems, one message — Ukraine holds and produces

### The quiet victory of Ukrainian engineering

These **1,000 weapons systems** certified in **2026** tell a story that war headlines rarely tell: the story of a nation that transformed its survival into an institution. That took the constraint of total war and converted it into an unprecedented industrial acceleration program. That proved, backed by figures, that strategic autonomy is not an ambition for peacetime. It is an absolute necessity in wartime.

**Ukraine** in **2026** is not the country **Vladimir Putin** imagined invading in **2022**. It is no longer a post-Soviet state in transition, dependent on Western weapons. It is an emerging defense power, capable of designing, testing, certifying, and deploying its own systems at a pace few states in the world can match. And that transformation — quiet, methodical, profound — may be the most important strategic victory **Ukraine** has won since **2022**.

### What the West must understand

For Western decision-makers, these **1,000 systems** carry a clear message: **Ukraine** is not only a country to defend. It is a technological partner to support, an innovation laboratory to study, a model of industrial resilience not to let wither. Reducing aid to **Ukraine** today is not only abandoning an ally. It is surrendering decades of technological lead in tomorrow's warfare.

The **1,000 certified systems** are an investment in the future of collective security. Every **drone** tested in combat, every **EW system** refined at the front, every **robot** deployed in the trenches of **Zaporizhzhia** — all of it accumulates military knowledge that belongs to the entire free world. And it would be suicidal for the **West** to let that source of intelligence run dry through lack of political will.

*One thousand certified systems. A figure that sums up four years of war, pain, ingenuity, and resistance. Ukraine did not simply survive Russian aggression. It transformed that aggression into the catalyst for an industrial revolution that will redefine the security of the continent for decades to come. And that — no Russian bomb can destroy.*

**By Maxime Marquette, columnist**

## Columnist's transparency note

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