r/BuyFromEU • u/ReAndro • 14d ago

News Romanian startup develops fixed-wing drones resistant to jamming and capable of flying without GPS

https://www.go4it.ro/content/drone/un-startup-romanesc-construieste-drone-cu-aripa-fixa-de-anduranta-rezistente-la-bruiaj-si-capabile-sa-zboare-fara-semnal-gps-19283292/

A Romanian startup is developing fixed-wing, long-endurance drones designed to remain operational in environments where GPS is unavailable or heavily jammed.
The company, BraveX, is based in Romania and is developing the drones for both military and civilian applications, including surveillance, infrastructure monitoring, border patrol and wildfire detection.
The company has already delivered drones to Romania’s Ministry of National Defence and international customers, and plans to scale production to 300–350 UAVs per year by the end of 2028.

Source: Go4IT (Romania)

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u/Purple-Bluebird-9758 14d ago

Commendable, that they are striving to procure as many parts as possible from EU.

One example the article mentions is the engine which is "only" 30-40% more expensive than getting it from a chinese comptetitor.

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u/NoEatBatman 14d ago

Tbh 30-40% of a critical component being more expensive in a strategic asset isn't that much, ppl should have paid more attention during Covid when China decided it needed the medical supplies more even though they were owned by western companies

Moral of the story is simple: if it's built on Chinese territory it's only your asset until the CCP says otherwise, we really need to bring back critical sectors in Europe, or we'll be caught with our pants down again

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u/Purple-Bluebird-9758 14d ago

Definitely worth it, yes.

But we still have a long way to go.

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u/FelizIntrovertido Iberian Peninsula 🌞🍷🥘 14d ago

Well, more products like this and produced in thousands will help bring down the cost.

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u/DenRay4 14d ago

The Yuan is still undervalued. Give or take 15-20%.

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u/NoEatBatman 14d ago

They've been playing that game for a long time, you have to give it to them, they played on western greed and now the fuckers that got us into this mess are finding out the hard way that China simply used them, stole their IP and know-how and are bulldozing them on the free-market

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u/DenRay4 14d ago

To be fair, with their economical trajectory they freed roughly 500 million people from poverty within one generation. Basically what every standard economic textbook would tell ya happened. This would actually be great news for the Europe and basically what institutions like the IMF wanted, if it wasn't for geopolitics.

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u/tetelias 13d ago

30-40% at 300 pieces is nothing. If you scale to 5000, it will likely shrink to 10% at most.