Recurring demand, supplied from abroad
Air-defence and counter-UAS crews consume training targets on every session, and Ukraine still imports most of its fixed-wing airframes. MP AERO localizes a flight-tested European platform and builds it here, so the demand is met at home, at a cost imports cannot reach, with a channel from validation to state procurement.
Import dependence
Finished imports lose on price and customs, and lead times stretch. Local production is the cost and availability answer.
Consumable demand
Air-defence and counter-UAS training burns targets every session, yet cheap, realistic, high-speed targets are scarce. Recurring demand, thin supply.
Access to orders
Real demand converts only through validation and codification: NANGU, combat units, then procurement. That channel is the moat - and MP AERO is building it, not claiming it is already finished.
One airframe, many revenue roles
The Nitro 800/1000 is a high-speed, radio-transparent tactical platform, flight-tested by Nordyn: vertical launch from any spot, box to air in under five minutes, up to 3 kg payload and a 4 000 m ceiling on the 1000. That de-risks every concept below: they share one airframe and one proven production line.
What stays common is the airframe and the CNC production line; what changes by role is the payload, avionics, software and power budget. The shared baseline is the cost lever - each role is a defined build on top of it, with its own integration and acceptance tests.
Full specification
One platform, four monetization paths
The target drone is the revenue engine that funds combat/ISR; localization-as-a-service and IP are upside after operational proof. Thin margin × volume, one production line.
Training target
De-risked cash engine · recurring demandA high-fidelity aerial target for air-defense crews, FPV-interceptor training, and counter-UAS vendors validating detection and mitigation against a fast, realistic signature. Lower regulatory bar, recurring demand - targets are consumed. Built on the same line as the combat aircraft, so near-zero added product cost.
Combat / ISR
Core revenue via state procurementThe Nitro line, once codified, for reconnaissance and short-range strike. Codification opens the state and Brave1 Market channels at scale; early revenue does not hinge on it alone, since Brave1 also allows non-codified procurement from units' own funds.
Localization as a service
Longer-term upside · post-proofThe same production and codification capability offered to other platform owners who need to build and qualify in Ukraine. Partner-agnostic, scalable, independent of any single platform.
Integration & IP
Capability, not just an airframeThe architecture is built to integrate the best Ukrainian and allied subsystems: GPS-denied navigation, resilient link, EW sensing, onboard autonomy. Ukrainian foreground IP plus a low cost structure. Component sourcing adapts to the customer, including allied and export compliance requirements.
Allied-compliant power components
Alongside the airframe programme, MP AERO supports a separate NORDYN-run supply line: propulsion and power components built to allied and export-compliance requirements. It is a distinct business with its own customers - export and allied programmes where component provenance is a procurement condition - and it runs independently of the Ukrainian localization play.
For Ukrainian production we source to the local market's own economics; this line exists for the customers who need the compliant stack, and it gives the group a second, decoupled revenue base.
Scope: the power stack - motors and cells - evidenced by supplier country-of-origin declarations. It is offered on configurations built for those programmes, not asserted on every unit.
Power components brief (PDF)- ▹Compliant propulsion - Motor and power stack sourced to allied / export-compliance rules.
- ▹Export & allied programmes - For customers where component provenance is a procurement condition.
- ▹Run by NORDYN - A separate NORDYN business line; MP AERO participates and supports it.
- ▹Decoupled revenue - Independent of the Ukrainian localization economics and timeline.
Two validation tracks, one procurement case
What turns an imported airframe into a trusted, procurable system is proof under real conditions. MP AERO runs two independent validation tracks, institutional and frontline, that most foreign makers cannot reach.
NANGU state validation
Agreed with the leadership of the National Guard of Ukraine academy, NANGU. Testing on official ranges with live electronic warfare and jamming, plus trials in National Guard combat units, under a formal protocol. The outcome is Ukrainian and then NATO codification, or a documented state evaluation conclusion.
Combat-unit validation
Through the MP Foundation, direct testing with frontline units in real combat conditions, including units with their own R&D and production cells that adapt changes in-country. This is end-user feedback and demand signal that a spec sheet cannot give.
A lean path to codified production
A 12-month "prove and codify" plan. First revenue lands roughly two months after the Ukrainian line goes live.
Incorporate
Register MP AERO LLC and close the pre-seed round.
Import test kits
Bring in the first Nitro kits from Germany for trials in Ukraine.
Validate
NANGU ranges with live EW, plus frontline units. The codification case is built here.
Tooling
Stand up the stationary CNC airframe line in Ukraine.
First sales
About 2 months after the line is live - target-drone revenue first.
From one airframe to a production node
The airframe is the beachhead, not the ceiling. The strategic goal is to produce NORDYN's DRN:X containerized micro-factories under licence in Ukraine and supply them across the country - turning MP AERO from a single-product localizer into a Ukrainian node for distributed drone manufacturing. This is what makes the capacity above reachable and the moat a platform, not one aircraft.
The factory, not just the drone
NORDYN packages serial production into 20-foot shipping containers. A container ships anywhere and starts producing hardware - platforms like the Nitro 800 - almost immediately on arrival: container in, production the next day. Presented at the European Defense Tech Festival (EDTH). The pitch is not a single drone, it is how drones get built.
Licensed production, on Ukrainian soil
Licensed Ukrainian assembly and supply of DRN:X units, a local supply chain, and the NANGU-plus-frontline validation channel - so distributed production and the route into procurement sit in the same hands. Capacity scales by adding nodes, not by betting everything on one line.
This is the strategic direction, not a pre-seed milestone. The pre-seed funds the first stationary CNC line; DRN:X licensing and local production is the scale step that line earns.
Built for a country at war
Producing in Ukraine carries real security, logistics and workforce risk. We plan around it rather than stay silent about it.
Western-Ukraine base
Production and coordination run from western Ukraine, away from the most contested regions and close to EU logistics.
Distributed by design
The DRN:X containerized model is itself a dispersal answer - production can be split across sites and relocated, not concentrated into one target.
Proven under war
The team has delivered goods and services throughout the war via international humanitarian tenders and the MP Foundation’s frontline logistics.
Flight-tested by Nordyn. Localized by MP AERO.
One film, the full cycle - Nordyn's container micro-factory, hand assembly, and flight test in Germany. This is the proven platform and production model MP AERO is localizing in Ukraine.
All images show real NORDYN product and kits, made in Germany. MP AERO's Ukrainian production is planned, not yet operational - these are the platform and production model being localized, not photos of a Ukrainian line.
Maksym Pozhydaiev
Founder and coordinator. During the war, a proven supplier of goods and services as a winner of international humanitarian tenders (GEEBEE Group). Through the MP Foundation (humanitarian), direct access to frontline brigades - the end-user channel that turns codification into real orders. His role is not to build the airframe alone, but to assemble and run the engineering, production and validation chain in Ukraine.
- ▹NORDYN R&D department - The engineering team behind the flight-tested platform and the DRN:X production system - MP AERO builds on their work under licence, not from a blank sheet.
- ▹Ukrainian engineering - Outsourced airframe and software engineers and developers in Ukraine, scaled to the build rather than carried as fixed overhead.
- ▹NANGU specialists - Qualified technical support from the National Guard academy on the validation and codification side.
Where it stands
- ▹Platform proven abroad - Flight-tested by Nordyn - demonstrated to the Bundeswehr, shown at multiple defence exhibitions.
- ▹Not yet in Ukraine - No local flights or production yet - that is exactly what the pre-seed funds.
- ▹Institutional foothold - Nordyn-NANGU memorandum for a joint research lab.
- ▹Licence & IP - Exclusive Ukraine licence, 3-year renewable; MP AERO to own Ukrainian modifications & customer relationships (terms in final negotiation).
Built with a proven network
Manufacturers, research institutions and organizations MP AERO develops and scales with.
Invest in Ukrainian production
Pre-seed capital to reach codified, low-cost production at volume - starting with the target-drone market, where demand is recurring today.
Use of funds: equipment and the CNC line, the core team, working capital, and codification/IP. The detailed pre-seed structure, unit economics and financial model are shared with qualified investors under NDA.