Michael Schwirtz
The Ukrainian drone operators were in the middle of fierce fighting when a white-haired American arrived at the front and began peppering them with questions. He wanted advice for producing battle drones like the ones Ukraine was then using, Sgt. Oleksandr Karpiuk, the commander of the drone unit, recalled.
On the advice of Sergeant Karpiuk and others, the tech billionaire shifted gears. Instead of creating a battle drone, he made Merops, an anti-drone system that has become critical to Ukraine’s defenses. The system, developed with the help of Ukrainian fighters, has used its small, cheap interceptor drones to take out thousands of long-range Russian attack drones, saving untold numbers of lives, officials and fighters said.
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