Our plant was visited by ambassadors from the Nordic countries: Sweden, Norway and Finland, as well as Ukraine.
The issue of European support for Ukraine was at the top of the discussion agenda, the need to strengthen the country’s defense capability.
Equally important is the development of relations between European manufacturers and the identification of new challenges for European defense technologies.
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Visit of European ambassadors to the plant
Our production facilities were visited by ambassadors of three European countries: Latvia, the Netherlands and Great Britain.
At the meeting with the ambassadors, the management of U&C was able to discuss issues of future cooperation.
As well as the need to develop and integrate the latest technologies in the field of unmanned aerial systems, which are designed to protect the European Union and their allies.
Participation in the FUTURE FORCES EXHIBITION 2024
The company presented niche unmanned aerial systems, each of which performs its own task on the battlefield.
Professional and political figures had the opportunity to get acquainted with the products and services that the company U&C develops and produces in the Czech Republic and offers to its partners and clients.
The U&C’s booth was visited by the Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic Jana Černochová and the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Czech Republic Vasyl Zvarych.
Company U&C took part at Drone Shield 2024
At the end of September, the Czech Republic hosted military experimental tests of Drone Shield 2024. The 53rd Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare Regiment, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence’s Force Development Department and thirty companies from the Czech defence industry, tested several dozen technological solutions for drones, drone countermeasures and systems.
The products of U&C demonstrated the best performance, and the capabilities to counter anti-drone systems were recognised as the best.
Drone manufacturer for Ukraine offered Czech Republic a test kit
The UAC company, which launched the production of military drones for the Ukrainian armed forces in Kolín a few months ago, is testing a drone for destroying targets. The unmanned guidance drones, which it produces in the hundreds annually, are currently aimed exclusively at Ukraine. In the future, the company wants to look for customers in other countries. The company has now offered the Czech Army one set of drones for free testing for training Ukrainian soldiers, said Defense Minister Jana Černochová (ODS) after visiting the company.
“The set should be used to train Ukrainian soldiers who operate in the Czech Republic based on the mandate of both chambers of parliament and whom we train for the benefit of the Ukrainian armed forces,” said Černochová. According to her, operators and pilots will be able to train with drones on Czech territory.
“It’s good that our soldiers will have the opportunity to try it out,” said former Defense Minister Lubomír Metnar (for ANO). But according to him, it’s nothing groundbreaking, as the Czech Army includes the 53rd Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare Regiment, which includes the UAV battalion. “Of course, it is equipped with UAVs and has been working with this technology for a long time,” he noted.
According to the minister, the company is the largest supplier of drones to the Ukrainian armed forces and has the best results in monitoring the situation. “Their information is used by the Ukrainian armed forces for further progress on the front,” she added. She recalled that the establishment of the company in the Czech Republic is the result of cooperation agreed upon by the Czech and Ukrainian governments at the end of 2022.
The company currently produces two models of reconnaissance drones that provide real-time overview and guidance of artillery fire on the battlefield. The set, which is headed to Ukraine in two transport boxes, includes three drones and accessories. In the testing phase and before the start of production, there is a so-called suicide drone, which is used to destroy targets. “It is essentially a remotely controlled missile,” said UAC Executive Director Pavel Bulant.
ČT24 Studio: Former Defense Minister Lubomír Metnar on drone production in the Czech Republic
The company has built on the roughly ten-year tradition and know-how of the Ukrainian company and moved part of its production to the Czech Republic from the Dnieper in eastern Ukraine. It began full-scale operations in Kolín this spring, employing roughly eighty people, eighty percent of whom are Ukrainians. According to Bulant, production is largely independent of subcontractors; electronics and optics, for example, are produced directly at the Kolín plant.