Kvertus
Ukraine's largest electronic-warfare maker, Kyiv's Kvertus jams the FPV and Shahed drones stalking the front — from the KVS G-6 anti-drone gun to the Atlas 'wall' meant to link thousands of jammers across 1,300 km.
Background
Founded in 2017, before Russia's full-scale invasion, Kvertus shipped its first anti-drone gear the same year — a small crew of engineers building what one profile called 'Star Wars' gadgets for a country already fighting in the Donbas. Wikipedia lists Andrii Znaichenko as founder and co-owner, Yaroslav Filimonov as CEO and co-owner, and Serhii Skoryk as commercial director; Filimonov, earlier billed as director of technology, is the public face on nearly every product launch.
The 2022 invasion turned a niche shop into the recognized leader of Ukraine's EW sector, where 50-plus firms now compete. Its edge is iteration at the trench: staff say they visit the front almost weekly to test gear near Pokrovsk, Toretsk and Kostyantynivka, and several products — the AD Counter FPV 'one with horns,' the Kraken backpacks — began as direct soldier requests. The full line is codified to NATO standards and fielded across the Armed Forces, National Guard, police, SBU and Border Guard. Kvertus also trains operators, partnering with the Kruk center. Headquarters are in Kyiv.
Financial footing
- Confirmed: official supplier to the Armed Forces, National Guard, National Police, SBU and State Border Guard, entire line NATO-codified
- 2025 deal with Ukrainian Armor to equip its armored vehicles (e.g. Novator 2 APC)
- Member of NAUDI
- DREAM priority project
- Reported/self-reported: Project Atlas charitable build-out costed over UAH 5bn (~$120M), only ~10% raised by Aug 2025
- Exported EW/drone-suppression gear with Gulf (UAE/Saudi) interest — no specific foreign MoD contract confirmed
- Backers: None disclosed — privately held, no announced VC/equity round or valuation and no publicly reported Brave1 investment. Growth funded by state procurement and charitable/TechExchange backing (Project Atlas). (Unverified.)
Kvertus is privately held and unusually opaque: no VC round, valuation, revenue or headcount has been disclosed, and it takes no publicly reported Brave1 equity. What is documented is a procurement shift — in 2022 roughly 80% of output was bought by charities and businesses; by 2024 about 85% of sales went to the state, military units and local communities.
Its flagship Atlas 'anti-drone wall' is funded as a separate charitable drive (Project Atlas, launched February 2025 via the UK-UA TechExchange and Brave1): building it out — an estimated 6,000 Mirage jammers and 300 Azimuth sensors for the full 1,300 km front — is costed at over UAH 5 billion (~$120 million), of which only about 10% had been raised by August 2025. Company claims of '100,000+ lives saved' and a ~6,000-frequency database are self-reported. Exact output is undisclosed, though early on it built 80-plus KVS G-6 guns with 100+ on order.
Major customers & contracts
Kvertus's core customer is the Ukrainian state. Its full catalog is in service with the Armed Forces, and it bills itself as an official supplier to the National Guard, National Police, SBU and State Border Guard; Atlas reportedly entered National Guard service. Charitable channels still matter — the Come Back Alive foundation and TechExchange back deliveries, and Project Atlas is structured as a charity.
A 2025 industrial deal with Ukrainian Armor, Ukraine's largest private vehicle maker, put Kvertus EW on serially produced armored vehicles such as the Novator 2 APC. Foreign demand is nascent but real: Kvertus exhibited at EDEX 2023 in Egypt and WDS 2024 in Saudi Arabia, is cited among Ukrainian firms that have exported EW/drone-suppression gear, and is named a supplier Gulf states may tap. NATO codification has begun; no specific foreign MoD contract is confirmed.
Leadership & contact surface
Leadership: Yaroslav Filimonov (CEO & co-owner; variously cited as founder / director of technology and the public face). Andrii Znaichenko listed as founder and co-owner; Serhii Skoryk, commercial director.
Official site: https://kvertus.ua
Competitive position
At home, Kvertus tops a crowded field of 50-plus EW/ELINT makers, competing with Piranha Tech (HAD rifles, Piranha T) and Infozakhyst (Plastun sensors), among others. Its differentiator is spanning the whole stack — handheld guns, infantry backpacks, vehicle and stationary jammers, SIGINT sensors (Azimuth/AeroAzimuth), a UGV-mounted jammer (Berserk) and the networked Atlas layer — all NATO-codified and blanket-fielded by the AFU.
Its strategic bet is contested: Atlas envisions one operator commanding thousands of jammers behind a single screen, while Infozakhyst's director argues an intelligent defense should integrate the existing multi-vendor ecosystem rather than be rebuilt from scratch by one firm. Globally, Kvertus is a combat-hardened counterweight to Western C-UAS incumbents — DroneShield, Dedrone/Axon, Thales, Leonardo — whose systems lack Ukraine's frequency-by-frequency, weekly-updated tuning. Its weakness is scale-up capital and export maturity against those better-funded players.
Battlefield relevance
Kvertus gear sits inside the war's defining loop: the EW-versus-drone arms race. Russian FPVs now hop from 400-490 MHz to 2.1-2.3 GHz and reflash firmware to dodge jammers, so Kvertus re-tunes constantly — its guns and backpacks force radio-controlled FPVs and Mavics to lose link and drop, ideally intact enough to recover intel.
The KVS G-6 gun jams control, video and satnav to a claimed ~3 km; Counter FPV and Kraken backpacks shield infantry and trenches; Berserk, a UGV-mounted jammer entering serial production in 2025, escorts casualty evacuation, assaults and logistics up to 20 km out. Against Shahed-class and multirotor threats the pitch is layered coverage — individual devices, then vehicle and stationary jammers, then the Atlas net. Operators caution the tech only works with trained crews and can jam friendly drones if misused — EW is as much doctrine as hardware.
Sources & verification
- Wikipedia — Kvertus (company overview, founders, product list)
- Ukrainska Pravda / Oboronka — A shield against FPV drones: is Ukraine's electronic warfare winning? (2025-08-08)
- The Defense Post — Ukraine Unveils New System That Links 'Thousands' of EW Units Against Drones (2025-07-10)
- Militarnyi — Ukraine Develops New Mobile EW System Based on Robotic Platform [AD Berserk] (2025-07-21)
- Sifted — The UK needs to embrace Ukraine's defence tech pioneers (2025-08-04)
- Defense Express — Ukrainian Solutions to Anti-Drone Warfare: Kvertus on Developments Refined by War (2023-12-03)
- Unmanned Airspace — Ukrainian company Kvertus Technology develops long-range anti-drone rifle [KVS G-6]
- The Defense Post — Ukraine's Himera Scores First NATO Contract for Battlefield Radios (notes Kvertus EW exports) (2025-10-08)
- Reuters — Gulf money will boost Europe's defence startups (names Kvertus) (2026-03-17)