Bucharest, March 5, 2026 – RBJ – Qognifly, a Romanian deep-tech company specialized in autonomous drone countermeasure systems (C-UAS), announces the public launch and entry into a new stage of consolidation for Drone Wall, an integrated detection, tracking and interception architecture, developed by Romanian engineers and validated under operational conditions. In parallel, the company already has in its portfolio mature UAV platforms in commercialization – Class 1 (mini) tactical ISR UAVs, Class 1 (small) hybrid (endurance 17h+) and electric fixed-wing platforms, cargo drones with 50 kg+ payload and commercial anti-hail solutions – delivered to date in over 16 countries.
Qognifly’s mission is to provide a European, responsible and affordable solution for the protection of airspace against drone threats, aligned with the standards and interoperability requirements of the EU and NATO ecosystem.
“The proliferation of low-cost drones has fundamentally changed the rules of the game in air security. It is no longer sustainable to respond to a €30,000 threat with a €200,000 or even multi-million missile,” says Ion Mocanu, Co-Founder and CEO of Qognifly. “With Drone Wall, our team in Romania has transformed an idea into a field-validated capability in Ukraine: an autonomous architecture, with reusable interceptors and artificial intelligence, that brings economic efficiency back to those protecting infrastructure and communities.”
“At Qognifly, we have brought together aerospace discipline and innovation in AI and sensors to build a European drone countermeasure system designed for today’s operational reality,” adds Anton Danici, Technical Co-Founder. “Our goal is to provide defense forces and critical infrastructure operators with an efficient, reusable and accountable tool — for protection, not escalation.”
From detection to neutralization: an end-to-end system against drones
Qognifly covers the entire end-to-end chain of countering drone threats — from detection and identification, to tracking, resource allocation and interception. Drone Wall is built as a unified and integrable ecosystem, designed to outperform fragmented solutions operating in silos. All components run on-edge, with low latency and increased resilience, and the system is continuously refined based on operational data and feedback from Ukraine to improve classification, prioritization and intervention efficiency.
From operational validation to production preparation in Bucharest
Drone Wall is no longer a concept, but a capability validated under war conditions, based on assessments in scenarios relevant to modern air defense.
Based on these results, Qognifly is entering a phase of consolidating its infrastructure and processes, preparing a dedicated facility in Bucharest for pilot batch production and for standardizing the integration and testing stages, without announcing the start of series production at this time.
Qognifly has already signed MoUs with three companies in Ukraine, as part of its regional collaboration strategy.
The company already operates a European capacity dedicated to the development and integration of UAVs, with end-to-end control over the chain from aeronautical design and manufacturing from composite materials to avionics, sensors and mission software. This base allows for process standardization, tooling and European supply chain preparation, and supports the transition from prototyping and pilot batches to pre-industrialization in Romania.
Drone Wall: autonomous architecture, economic efficiency and scalability
Drone Wall is an integrated drone defense system based on ground-based radar, Air Defense Management System software, and a family of interceptors in three range classes, including a reusable jet-powered air-to-air variant. The architecture integrates detection, tracking, target assignment, and interception command into an automated workflow, enabling integration into a network-centric warfare framework where sensors, effectors, and command units share the same operational picture.
The system is designed for fully autonomous operation, with a minimum number of operators, with the interceptor guided by radar and coordinated through the ADMS, so as to respond to the current volume and complexity of threats, without depending on a dedicated human pilot for each engagement. With this approach, Qognifly aims for a cost ratio of approximately 1:20 compared to missile solutions, offering a scalable option for the protection of critical infrastructure and urban areas, with a focus on prevention and protection, not escalation.
In some configurations, the company uses established industry components where it makes sense, the Qognifly differentiator is the integrated architecture and proprietary layers (autonomy with AI, ADMS, radar-interceptor integration, safety and security). This is in line with the company’s COTS philosophy – Commercial off the Shelf, which reduces costs and has an impact on shortening the time to operationalization of the product, offering better interoperability through the use of standard interfaces.
In defense, the relevant criterion is not the “open-source” vs. “proprietary” label, but interoperability with C2/ISR ecosystems, auditability (traceability, compliance and verifiability), supply-chain robustness and hardening for operation in contested environments. Qognifly applies these principles at a complete system level, with integration, testing and configuration control processes that ensure performance and operational reliability.
Qognifly has held advanced discussions with several equity investors, including international ones, but the company has chosen to move forward with a local strategic partner, with the financing round to be officially announced in the coming period.
This financing will accelerate the testing, completion of the jet interceptor and the preparation of industrial capabilities for the Drone Wall, including the development of video and radar processing algorithms, multi-drone coordination and interceptors up to 500 km/h, as well as the expansion of the team and production capacity.
Qognifly supports the Black Sea Defense initiative as a regional collaboration platform for the integration and industrialization of defense capabilities in the Black Sea, a stage that externally validates the technology and paves the way for institutional customers in the EU and NATO, in a context of accelerated growth in investments in C-UAS systems.
The company takes a responsible technology approach, oriented towards the protection of critical infrastructure, field forces and the civilian population, in accordance with the safety, interoperability and compliance requirements of European and NATO partners. By developing and preparing the industrialization of C-UAS systems in Europe, Qognifly contributes to European technological sovereignty and the security of supply chains, having as core values engineering rigor, strategic autonomy and responsibility in the design, testing and use of technology.
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