Fiber-optic guided drones evade radar and jamming - Ukraine proved how deadly they are, and now they're proliferating. Aleksander Djurka (ex-Stellantis, Vestiaire, Lazada/Alibaba exec) founded Axair Systems to counter them with €800 AI interceptors using computer vision.

After years of building platforms that securely handle massive enterprise data flows and millions of connected vehicles, he’s determined to apply that precision to defense. Djurka brings robotics research from TU München, plus data infrastructure leadership at the multi-billion dollar automotive and e-commerce scale.

Defense drone markets are surging today as wire-guided threats expose critical air-defense gaps, while autonomous vehicles race toward $2T+ by 2030. Axair targets both military and civilian UxV markets at the intersection of Europe’s defense-tech renaissance and autonomous-systems adoption - dual revenue streams in enormous, accelerating categories.

His AWS essay on managing connected devices at scale underscores how, at millions of endpoints, milliseconds compound and failures cascade. Defense demands the same rigor, but now precision means lives, not latency - it requires an expert like Djurka. Axair’s go-live is expected by EOY.