UFORCE
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Oleg Rogynskyy and Oleksii Honcharuk
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2025
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London, UK
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501-1000 Employees
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$50M, Seed
Overview
UFORCE is a London-based defence-technology company, born in Ukraine, building combat-proven platforms: USVs, UAVs and ground vehicles, with agnostic C2 software. It makes the Magura, the first USV to sink a warship, with UK manufacturing and a British Army contract. It is the first joint UK-Ukrainian defense-tech unicorn, valued at over $1 billion.
Key Technology Insights
UFORCE builds attritable autonomous vehicles across sea, air and land, linked by agnostic C2 software that tracks and prosecutes targets from fused sensor feeds. Its reusable Nemesis UAV costs ~$500 per kill, with a non-Chinese supply chain, and is combat-proven over three years.
Industry Application
Maritime strike is most mature, led by the Magura, the first USV to sink a warship, with a dozen vessels hit and jets downed via AIM-9. Nemesis UAVs add strike, resupply and ISR. Allied adoption is taking place: in testing US forces sank a target ship in the Philippines.
Strategic Perspective
UFORCE reflects how cheap, unmanned drones are democratising sea power and challenging capital ships. What sets it apart from its competitors is having a real combat record, non-Chinese supply chain and exportable C2 and doctrine. Scaling to allies, its opportunity spans the Indo-Pacific, pending formal Western accreditation.

