On the eve of a full-scale war, interest in the topic of military technologies on the part of the Ukrainian IT community could be characterized as “moderate” at best. But the situation has changed over the past nine months. The need for technology is constantly growing, and local businesses and startups, which are actively developing various solutions for the military, have paid attention to this.

In a partner material with Favbet Tech, CEO of the company Artem Skrypnyk talks about how Ukrainian IT professionals find themselves in military technologies and evaluates the prospects of national MilitaryTech.

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We are now witnessing the birth of the market

IT solutions are critical on the battlefield – our military relies heavily on technology to help it successfully complete combat missions.

Today there is mobilization in all directions. For example, the Ministry of Information and Communications launched an IT army that attacks enemy infrastructure, and from the first months of the war and now monitors the movement of enemy forces.

Much effort has also been focused on the development of solutions in the field of big data, which is important for intelligence, as well as on cyber security.

Ukraine is a deeply digitized state, therefore reliable protection of IT infrastructure, energy systems and databases is no less in demand than air defense means. There are more and more projects in the field of artificial intelligence, robotics, drone development – drones of various modifications are now being developed and produced very actively in Ukraine.

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Favbet Tech has been creating solutions for the Armed Forces since the first days of the war

Despite the “peaceful” specialization of the business, work on military projects at Favbet Tech began back in February. There were only a few initiatives.

In particular, our developers created a mobile application for one of the military units where a Favbet Tech employee served. This program makes the work of gunners easier: it automates certain routine processes necessary to conduct accurate fire at enemy positions. We handed over the application to the unit back in March and received very positive feedback.

Considering the fact that we had a strong staff of cyber security specialists even before the start of the war, it became one of the main areas of military activity of Favbet Tech. The team participated in DDoS attacks, hacked important enemy resources. In the early days of the full-scale war, we helped the Ukrainian military locate and identify the occupiers by intercepting their calls through Ukrainian cell towers.

Of course, there was a need for hacking not only from our team, but from the entire IT army. Ukrainian specialists hacked Russia’s IT systems, as a result of which we obtained many databases and a large amount of information about Russian citizens.

These were, for example, the hacking of the servers of the food delivery service, government services, etc. – thanks to this, it was possible to help the Ukrainian army, transfer important data, robbing the enemy. With the help of hacked data, they could also find and identify Russians.

As for future MilitaryTech developments, we are constantly communicating with various departments and trying to cover all needs where the company’s experience can be useful. Like most other Ukrainian businesses, we are always open to requests from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In general, it can be stated that Ukrainian IT companies have enough expertise to be useful and effective in the military direction. But they must adapt to new realities and rapidly change their software development processes to be more military-oriented.

We have great expertise in the market in certain directions. Ukrainian IT companies are very strong in the field of cyber security, we have many talented and, I would say, world-renowned specialists and IT teams engaged in this. Therefore, I would call this direction the most realistic for companies that want to join the IT front.

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