JET

JET, also styled Jettech, is a Ukrainian combat-drone manufacturer that frames its work as a full operational package rather than a catalogue of airframes — bundling hardware with pilots, instructors, engineers, analytics and field support. Its public lineup runs from FPV strike drones through bombers, munitions and ground control stations, and the company says it builds the structural components and the control-and-communication electronics itself. JET reports producing 5,000 units in 2024 and lists a monthly capacity of 12,000 for 2025, with a workforce that includes a stated 50-plus veterans.

The platform that drew the most attention is the JET MAX, a heavy multirotor bomber unveiled at a defence forum in Lviv in late 2025. Operated by a two-person crew and prepared for launch in around ten minutes, it carries roughly 20 kg of munitions out to about 15 km behind the front line and — unlike a one-way attack drone — returns to be reloaded. Its payload can be configured as either two heavy weapons or up to eight smaller precision-dropped charges, and control runs over a Ukrainian-developed radio station using a four-band frequency-hopping (FHSS) scheme to evade jamming. Reporting on the system, Newsweek cited analysts describing heavy bomber drones as most effective at night against stationary targets, soldier groups and bunkers.

Alongside the bomber, JET produces fiber-optic FPV drones aimed squarely at electronic-warfare-saturated stretches of the front. The JET-10" FO carries up to 2 kg and is steered entirely down a 15 km fiber spool with no GPS or radio link, while the larger JET-13" FO extends control to around 20 km. The fiber tether is the key feature: it cannot be jammed, which is why both Ukrainian and Russian units have leaned heavily on fiber-optic FPVs as RF jamming has intensified. JET sits within the broad wartime cohort of Ukrainian drone firms — alongside makers such as Fire Point and Culver Aviation — that scaled from workshop output to industrial volumes during the full-scale war.