Airbus Defence and Space has secured Brave1’s first industrial strategic partnership with a Western company, embedding the European aerospace group directly into Ukraine’s combat-tested R&D ecosystem. The Memorandum of Understanding establishes joint task forces to drive technological projects from initial scientific research through to modernization of active equipment, integrating Airbus technologies into Brave1’s “Test in Ukraine” framework. This deal grants Airbus direct access to Ukraine’s fastest-moving weapons development pipeline, enabling live frontline co-testing where operational performance data feeds directly back into the development loop to meet immediate security needs. Airbus will also serve as a strategic partner at the Defence Tech Valley summit in Lviv, accelerating the transition of battlefield technologies from concept to combat deployment.