DeepStrikeTech

DeepStrikeTech is a Ukrainian startup, founded in 2024 and based in Kyiv, that develops long-range strike drones. It was put together in the autumn of 2024 by a group of Ukrainian engineers, and its single public product is the Batyar, a multi-role unmanned aircraft whose silhouette has drawn comparisons to the Russian-Iranian Shahed family — though the company says its aerodynamics were calculated independently from Western technical documentation rather than copied from the Shahed.

The Batyar is built around a gasoline engine and, in its long-range configuration, is reported to carry an 18 kg warhead more than 800 km; the airframe itself is described as light, with Ukrainian-language reporting citing a weight on the order of 16 kg. It is designed to launch from a catapult or a vehicle without prepared runways or an airstrip, keeping it mobile in field conditions, and reporting describes it holding its programmed trajectory through a steep terminal dive onto a target even when damaged. Originally conceived as a one-way attack drone for deep strikes, it has since been described as switchable between roles — decoy, bomber or front-line strike drone — depending on payload and software. The drone was first disclosed publicly in May 2025, and the company has said it has begun series production.

As a young firm in Ukraine’s crowded long-range-strike segment, DeepStrikeTech has disclosed little about its team, production scale or backers, and public specifications for the Batyar come largely from its own briefings rather than independent testing — including the airframe weight, where Ukrainian and English-language reports diverge. It sits alongside larger and longer-established deep-strike developers such as Fire Point and AeroDrone in a field that has grown quickly as Ukraine has pushed to strike targets far behind the front.