The American company Vermeer is integrating its optical navigation systems into Ukrainian strike and reconnaissance drones. This was announced at the Defense Innovation Forum 2025 by the company’s founder and CEO, Brian Streem.
The system is a compact module containing day and night cameras, a computing unit, and a hard disk with preloaded detailed 3D terrain maps.
The maps are based on high-quality satellite imagery provided by third-party contractors. The system is also equipped with inertial navigation. Vermeer’s optical navigation systems can be adapted to any aerial platform, regardless of its purpose, and operate at different altitudes. Thanks to this technology, the drone does not depend on GPS, which makes it invulnerable to spoofing.
According to Brian Streem, the system is already integrated into 40-50 drones.
Defense Innovation Forum 2025
Militarnyi has previously reported that the Portuguese company TEKEVER, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, is modernizing its products, taking into account the experience of a full-scale war in Ukraine.
According to the company’s representative, AR3 and AR5 complexes are actively used in Ukraine, which are constantly being improved thanks to feedback from Ukrainian specialists.
According to him, the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian front is the most difficult in the history of electronic warfare (EW).
This has become an incentive to develop new technological solutions that increase the resistance of drones to enemy electronic warfare, GPS jamming and spoofing.
Source: MILITARNYI