Aero Center

Aero Center is a Ukrainian full-cycle drone manufacturer that builds both unmanned aircraft and the munitions they carry. The company grew out of front-line demand: its first product, a drone-dropped munition called Malyuk (“Baby”), weighed about 450 grams — enough for one or two drops from a consumer quadcopter — before troops pushed for heavier payloads of one, one-and-a-half kilograms and more. From there its engineers moved into wiring warheads directly to flight controllers, building initiation systems and producing kamikaze FPV drones, and more recently medium-class bombers that carry 5–10 kg of ordnance to ranges of roughly 25 km. Roman Yeremenko is a director of the company; a UAV subsidiary, Aero Center Drones, is headed by Ihor Matviyuk.

The firm has lately turned to air defence. Together with Dwarf Engineering , a Ukrainian software company that builds multi-platform mission-control systems for unmanned vehicles, Aero Center is assembling a complete interceptor-drone package — the airframe, its payload and the software needed to fold it into existing air-defence networks — aimed at Ukrainian units and international partners. Low-cost interceptor drones of this kind drew attention in March 2026 when reporting noted Pentagon interest in buying Ukraine’s roughly $1,000-per-unit interceptors. Yeremenko has framed the work as an engineering race in which weight is everything — “an extra 100 grams on a combat drone can mean minus two kilometres” of range — and the conflict as “a war of technology” in which the side that stays ahead wins. Aero Center sits within Ukraine’s broad wartime drone-manufacturing base, which the state coordinates in part through the Brave1 defence-technology cluster.