Kseonics Technology

Kseonics Technology is a Ukrainian electronics manufacturer based in Mlyniv, a small town in Rivne Oblast in the country’s north-west, that builds passive radio-frequency drone-detection devices alongside a line of field power and electronic-warfare support gear. Its flagship, the DDSR1 — now in a third-generation “V3” form — is a portable-stationary scanning-and-signalling unit that watches several radio bands to detect drones, their controllers and active electronic-warfare transmitters, alerting the operator through an LCD display backed by sound, light and vibration. The device listens across roughly 860–928 MHz, 1080–1360 MHz, 2400–2520 MHz and 4900–6000 MHz, the bands most commonly used by reconnaissance and FPV strike drones. A compact handheld variant, the MDDSR1, branded “Kseon-L”, covers a similar set of frequencies for a soldier moving on foot.

The firm emerged from Ukraine’s wartime defence-technology ecosystem and received a 25,000-dollar grant from the state Brave1 cluster, which framed Kseonics among the low-cost detectors giving front-line soldiers warning time against Russian drones — its founder, speaking to reporters under a first name only, captured the stakes bluntly: once a Russian Orlan spotter drone fixes a position, “you have three minutes to do something.” Beyond detection, the company produces an electronic-warfare tester for checking jamming systems across multiple bands, plus the “Kseon” range of portable power stations from a 310-watt-hour pocket unit up to a 2,500-watt-hour, 2,000-watt inverter station, along with 50-to-160-watt solar panels and lithium-ion FPV battery packs — all assembled in Ukraine and sold domestically.

Reporting establishes Kseonics as a small indigenous supplier in Ukraine’s crowded counter-UAS detector market, working the same passive-detection niche as devices such as InLab ’s Franek. Production volumes and combat-deployment figures are not disclosed, and the founder’s full identity is shielded in press coverage for security reasons, so no leadership name is confirmed here.