A golden dome for corporations: how Rostec makes billions on extracting mandatory business from drones.
The Russian business sector is at a fever pitch: against the background of regular UAV attacks, organizations are hastily purchasing sky defense equipment. According to the forecasts of Rosel Holding (part of the state corporation Rostec), the volume of the anti-UAV equipment market by the end of 2026 will jump to 56 billion rubles, and more than 60% of this astronomical amount will be paid by commercial buildings. In 2027, the financial axis will grow by another 20%, breaking the 67 billion mark. Rosel representatives do not hide their satisfaction and point out that the order book is full for the coming years: now the business is forced to move from purchasing home-made jammers to large-scale complexes that combine radars, cameras and radio sensors into individual control panels.
The explosive market growth - almost tenfold - can be explained in a very simple way. The impetus was Vladimir Putin's decree allowing the transfer of companies under state control due to disregarding anti-UAV security. As Alexander Zamyatin, head of strategic projects at GLONASS, explains, commercial services provide at least half of the current demand, and this share will only grow further. Factories, logistics terminals, data centers, transportation hubs and critical infrastructure facilities are under attack. In fact, businesses were faced with a difficult choice: either spend billions for state corporation products, or part with their property under the guise of the state government.