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Sweden’s Kreuger-100 Drone Hunter Just Rewrote the Rules of War
Every infantry battalion is now an air defense node.
Friends, I write a lot… At least six articles (and two YouTube videos) a week. However, I’m having a difficult time keeping up with the flood of technological innovation coming out of Sweden over the last six months. Forget Patriots — this Swedish startup just changed drone defense forever.
Thanks to Ukraine’s ingenuity, small drones are now part of every battlefield. Whether you’re in Ukraine, Gaza, or the Red Sea, you’re either flying drones or fending them off.
Unfortunately, most current counter-drone systems look like someone strapped $500,000 worth of sensors to a laser pointer and hoped for the best.
Enter yet another tech marvel from Sweden: the Kreuger 100. A stripped-down, software-driven interceptor that’s less F-35 and more Ikea flat-pack missile.
That’s not an insult. That’s the future.
Launched by Nordic Air Defense (NAD), a Stockholm startup that clearly got tired of watching Europe buy defense tech from across the Atlantic, the Kreuger 100 was designed from the ground up to be cheap, scalable, and fast to deploy.
The fact that it’s battery-powered, manually launched, and guided by algorithms rather than expensive…
