As Ukrinform reports, this is stated in the Wall Street Journal publication.

Cyberlux, which has been producing long-lasting LED lights for the last two decades, is just entering the drone market. Last March, it acquired Catalyst Machineworks, a small Houston-based drone manufacturer specializing in quadcopters for the film and television industry. This company’s website states that it is “composed of several people” and “delivered by one of the owner’s wives.”

To circumvent the bureaucracy, Cyberlux turned to an American drone specialist. According to the company’s managing director, Mark Schmidt, the expert linked him with senior officials in Kiev and visited Ukraine in July.

Cyberlux demonstrated the drone to Ukrainian officials, including the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, at the test site.

After the demonstration, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Denis Sharapov asked the European Command of the US Armed Forces to provide him with 1,000 K8 drones.

For this reason, the Pentagon conveyed Ukraine’s request to the Naval Air Systems Command working with unmanned aerial vehicles. Schmidt said in November the Navy had merged Cyberlux with Virginia-based shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls Industries, which already has major contracts with the Pentagon.

Working with a well-known company allowed a small firm to skip the days that could take months or years to get past the Pentagon’s military procurement bureaucracy that required multiple levels of approval and extensive paperwork.

Photo: SERHII KOROVAYNY FOR WALL STREET JOURNAL