Merops is the Ukraine-proven interceptor drone the US Army bought ~13,000 of — an Eric Schmidt-funded, AI-guided fixed-wing drone that homes on Shaheds when jammed, rams them for ~$15,000 a shot, and recovers by parachute if it misses. The interceptor economy crossing the Atlantic.
Tytan is the German flagship of Europe's interceptor-drone wave — AI hit-to-kill drones (fixed-wing METIS, multicopter EOS) combat-used in Ukraine, under a Bundeswehr contract, with a NATO Innovation Fund-backed Series A and a factory scaling to 3,000 a month.
The V2U is Russia's autonomous AI strike drone — Nvidia Jetson brain, terrain-matching navigation, and late-2025 builds recovered with no radio link at all: nothing to jam. CSIS assesses Russia has likely fielded a fully autonomous weapon in combat. Maker unknown.