Nikitin Vladlen Volodymyrovych

Founder and owner of the defense company 'UkrAviaKosTech'

Commercial pilot, until 2022 — owner of a legal firm. According to him, from the third day of the full-scale invasion he focused on defense: distributed funds for volunteer efforts, taught UAV piloting at unit deployment points, later grew from 3D printing in his own hands into LLC 'Ukrainian Aviation and Space Technologies' — a manufacturer of FPV drones, fiber-optic drones, and electronic warfare systems (according to his claims — up to 50 thousand UAV units monthly).

Public position

Regular speaker at telemarathons and podcasts on military technologies; emphasizes that he appoints veterans discharged for health reasons to leadership positions. Publicly criticizes state regulation of defense procurements — the bureaucracy of cost expertise that blocks electronic warfare supplies to the front for weeks.