Defence Forward Podcast

Defence Forward
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Ukraine is the world's most intense laboratory for defence technology innovation — and the lessons are coming fast. Defence Forward goes inside Ukraine's fighting machine, bringing you unfiltered conversations with the founders building it, the operators using it, and the experts shaping what comes next. Hosted by cylindr Defence and the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation. For defence leaders, investors and anyone who needs to understand where modern warfare is heading.

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  1. IKEA Logic Speeds up Ukraine’s Production

    5 days ago

    IKEA Logic Speeds up Ukraine’s Production

    Micael Lawson didn't plan on becoming part of Ukraine's defence story. He drove a car full of generators from Trollhattan, Sweden to Fastiv because someone had to. Then he met soldiers at a Brave1 event. They asked for one thing: help us save the lives of our soldiers. That sentence changed the direction of his company. Micael is CEO of Recas Sweden and he now applies years of automotive thinking directly to Ukraine's most urgent manufacturing problem.He believes that although Ukrainian manufacturers are brilliant at building products that work, they are not necessarily scalable. Almost every company does product development to create capability, without adding design for manufacturing and design for assembly from the start. The gap between what a product can do and how it can be produced at volume is exactly where the automotive industry has spent decades. Ukraine must do three things now: accelerate production capacity, cut piece price through industrialization, and capture process data digitally. Micael Lawson questions how you can give ten technicians the production power of a hundred? How can you duplicate factories across a cluster of distributed nodes? How can you hand a recipe to a second producer without the original team? The answer is always the same: structured, controlled digital data.What does this mean for Ukraine, with 240 UGV manufacturers each solving the same problems in isolation? Cluster manufacturing, distributing production across multiple nodes so no single attack kills the whole line, is already happening. The next step is formalizing it: mapping every company's capabilities, storage, production tempo and capacity through a system like RIVET (Recas Industrial Visibility and Execution Tracker), so that when one node fails, another absorbs it within days.As the conflict evolves, battlefield outcomes will increasingly depend not on how many soldiers can be recruited, but on which side can put more pieces on the field at lower cost with higher intelligence. ► Follow Micael Lawson on ⁠Linkedin⁠► ⁠Learn about Recas ► Support Ukraine in the most efficient way with⁠ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation⁠ ► Production thanks to ⁠⁠⁠cylindr Defence⁠⁠⁠ ► ⁠Jonathan Winch⁠ — Podcast host► ⁠Dan Kucherenko⁠ — Podcast host► ⁠David Hoskin⁠ — Producer📡 Find us on Instagram and Youtube #defencetechnology #ukrainerussiawar #miltech #ukraine #UnmannedSystems #defenceforward

    1hr 7min
  2. The Next Military Tech Wave That Will Change Warfare in Ukraine | Mykyta Puz, AZOV

    18 Jun

    The Next Military Tech Wave That Will Change Warfare in Ukraine | Mykyta Puz, AZOV

    Mykyta Puz — Miltech Scouting and Partnership Officer at the 12th Special Forces Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, "AZOV". AZOV needs no introduction. The brigade that held the Mariupol Azovstal Steel Plant againstoverwhelming Russian forces in 2022 — and made it legendary — is now fighting in the Toretsk and Pokrovsk sectors of the Donetsk region, one of the most intense battlegrounds of the war. Mykyta's background is anything but typical: French translator by education, competitive car racer by hobby — and now the person bridging Western defence tech with one of Ukraine's most battle-hardened brigades. We talk about why 90% of technology pitched to Azov simply isn't battlefield-ready, how fibre-optic drones changed the war and what the next revolution in Ukraine's military technology might look like. ► Follow Mykyta Puz on Linkedin and Instagram ► AZOV One ► 4308 Store ► Follow Defence Forward Podcast ► Support Ukraine in the most efficient way with Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation ► Production thanks to ⁠⁠cylindr Defence⁠⁠ ► Jonathan Winch — Podcast host ► Dan Kucherenko — Podcast host ► David Hoskin — Producer #DefenceTech #DroneWarfare #UkraineWar #MilitaryTechnology #UnmannedSystems #ModernWarfare #warinukraine2026

    1hr 18min
  3. Inside Ukraine's Deep Strike: Oleksandr Sukhoi on Data-Driven Warfare and 1500km Drone Strikes

    6 Jun

    Inside Ukraine's Deep Strike: Oleksandr Sukhoi on Data-Driven Warfare and 1500km Drone Strikes

    In March 2026, Ukraine launched more drones into Russian territory in a single month than Russia launched into Ukraine. The 1st Unmanned Aerial Systems Center accounts for more than half of that number. Oleksandr — the head of analytical department — explains the full chain: from mission order and logistics to post-mission reporting and how his team eliminates every bottleneck in between. The 1st Center is something unprecedented in military history. What started as a battalion in 2022 - the first unit in the world to operate drones simultaneously across tactical, operational, and strategic levels — has grown into a center-level structure launching thousands of drones per month.Oleksandr Sukhoi spent 25 years building software teams across Europe. Then in late 2024, he made the same choice as thousands of other Ukrainians: he traded his civilian career for military service. Today he heads the analytical department of the 1st Center - the unit responsible for more than half of all Ukrainian deep strikes into Russian territory. This is Episode №1 of Defence Forward podcast, where we go inside Ukraine's fighting machine. At peak impact, the 1st UAS Center had disrupted 30-40% of Russia's oil export capacity. Oleksandr explains the psychological dimension too: Russian propagandists openly started saying the war should end. That signal is tracked, measured, and factored into how operations are planned. ► Donate to 1st Separate Unmanned Systems Center: https://1usc.army/en/aid/ USDT-TRC20 / BSC 0x4F7daE47c2a79E5627B57924Ff2fe5A7D165bb61 Solana 8NKuP5tmMpXDSLdSjUpHpabqnbrUn8rMjvc3abt1BsrJ BTC Bc1qlkxqhecmd2j4q957a27vzdaegesxenzt2qucwc ► Support Ukraine in the most efficient way with Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation:https://prytulafoundation.org/enKey moments: 00:00 Introduction to Alexander Suchy and His Role 03:15 Transition from IT to Military Service 06:22 Understanding Deep Strike Operations 09:06 Analyzing the Impact of Deep Strikes 12:26 Counteroffensive Measures and Tactical Adjustments 15:20 The Dynamics of Warfare and Future Predictions 18:11 Target Selection and Strategic Planning 21:28 Drone Warfare: Tactics and Countermeasures 24:17 Training and Resources for Effective Defense 29:38 Collaboration and Resource Allocation in Warfare 34:02 Feedback Loops and Real-Time Adjustments 36:38 Electronic Warfare: Challenges and Adaptations 38:58 Innovations in Drone Technology 41:02 Russia's Adaptation and Information Warfare 42:06 After Action Reviews and Strategic Insights 43:29 The Psychological Impact of Strikes 44:51 Targeting Moscow: Risks and Rewards 47:02 Long-Term Impact of Strikes on Russian Economy 48:37 Fundraising and Resource Needs 51:30 The Broader Implications of the War #deepstrike #ukrainewar #defenceforward #defence #defencenews #ukrainerussiawar

    54 min
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Ukraine is the world's most intense laboratory for defence technology innovation — and the lessons are coming fast. Defence Forward goes inside Ukraine's fighting machine, bringing you unfiltered conversations with the founders building it, the operators using it, and the experts shaping what comes next. Hosted by cylindr Defence and the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation. For defence leaders, investors and anyone who needs to understand where modern warfare is heading.

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