Frontline Robotics
Battle-tested EW-resistant drones (the LINZA family) and ground robots, now scaling through a German joint venture.
Frontline Robotics is a Kyiv defence company, founded in August 2023 by four Ukrainians with front-line experience, that builds the EW-resistant LINZA family of multifunctional drones alongside reconnaissance craft, a robotic turret, and ground robots. The LINZA is a single airframe asked to do many jobs — strike, bomber, logistics, mine-laying, reconnaissance, signal relay, and even drone-borne evacuation — and the latest LINZA 3.0 carries a 4 kg payload out to 15 km.
What sets the drone apart is its in-house AI visual-inertial navigation, which keeps it flying through the jamming that grounds GPS-dependent aircraft, paired with a dual-band encrypted control link that hops frequencies and can detect enemy electronic warfare. In December 2025 the company formed a joint venture, Quantum Frontline Industries, with Germany’s Quantum Systems to mass-produce the drone on a line in Bavaria for Ukraine’s military — a rare instance of a Ukrainian front-line design being scaled inside a NATO member state. Reported deployment figures are vendor- and media-sourced.
- Stack
- edge-autonomy
- computer-vision
- ai-targeting
- Collaboration
- dual-use
- build-with-ukraine
Products
Drones
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LINZA / Linza 3.0
An EW-resistant multifunctional UAV (strike/bomber, logistics, mine-laying, recon, relay, drone evacuation). The Linza 3.0 carries a 4 kg payload to 15 km with in-house AI visual-inertial navigation and a dual-band encrypted, frequency-hopping control link.
Robots
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Buria
A robotic turret; part of the company's ground-robot line alongside the Zoom reconnaissance drone.
Sources
- en.defence-ua.com/industries/ukrainian_german_qfi_delivers_first_linza_30_bomber_drones_just_months_after_launch-18024.html (2026-06-01) — Linza 3.0 specifications (4 kg payload, 15 km, visual-inertial navigation) and the Quantum Frontline Industries joint-venture delivery.
- www.startupreporter.eu/how-ukraines-frontline-robotics-took-its-battle-tested-drone/ (2026-06-01) — Founded August 2023 in Kyiv by four Ukrainians with front-line experience; CEO Yevhen Tretiak; the JV with Germany's Quantum Systems.
- thedefensepost.com/2026/04/06/ukraine-linza-tactical-drones/ (2026-06-01) — First Linza 3.0 batch delivered via the Quantum Frontline Industries line. Deployment counts ("60+ units") are vendor/media-reported.