ATHENS \u2014 Greek drone company Resilience Tech<\/a> says it has developed the first domestically produced flight controller for FPV drones, a core electronics board it plans to use as the \u201cbrain\u201d of its next-generation systems.<\/h3>\nThe firm announced the project on May 27. Development began about four months earlier, it said, after allied militaries it works with pressed for higher operational standards and a more secure supply chain.<\/p>\n
What the board does<\/h3>\n
A flight controller stabilizes the aircraft, processes sensor data and handles navigation. In current wars, electronic warfare and jamming make fast software changes as important as the hardware itself.<\/p>\n
Resilience Tech\u2019s board is built around an STM32F722 ARM Cortex-M7 processor. The company says that computing power can run complex navigation algorithms even when GPS is denied, and that software can be updated quickly as adversary tactics change.<\/p>\n
Why domestic production matters<\/h3>\n
The controller is assembled on the company\u2019s own pick-and-place SMT line in Greece. In-house board production is meant to cut reliance on foreign \u2014 often Asian \u2014 parts, limit export-control risk and reduce the chance of hardware-level backdoors.<\/p>\n
European armies are scaling FPV and other small unmanned systems. Athens and Brussels both treat fewer imported critical components as a sovereignty issue. Resilience Tech frames the controller as a step from buying foreign kits toward vertically integrated Greek production, from the circuit board to the finished drone.<\/p>\n
The company says the work also fits NATO\u2019s push for allied industry to design and build more of its own unmanned systems.<\/p>\n
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