
Breaking with the tradition of treating captured enemy equipment as a secret, Ukraine launched the "Trophy Laboratory" platform, attracting applications from more than 650 military-industrial companies around the world.
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Ukraine captured a large amount of enemy equipment on the anti-Russian battlefield. In June this year, it officially launched the "TrophyLab" digital intelligence platform to disclose the underlying technology of weapons to its allies.
In recent years, the Ukrainian Ministry of National Defense has captured a large amount of enemy equipment on the anti-Russian battlefield, breaking the traditional practice of countries treating trophies as top secrets. In June this year, it officially launched a digital intelligence platform called "TrophyLab" to directly disclose the underlying technologies of the latest Russian and North Korean weapons to certified allies.
This bold move immediately caused a sensation in the international defense circle. As of this week, it has attracted more than 650 applications rushing to register, making Russia's military trump cards almost clear to the Western world.
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine today, of the more than 650 existing applications for settlement, as many as 389 are from top foreign military industrial enterprises and weapons manufacturers, while the rest are made up of local Ukrainian manufacturers, frontline military units and government agencies. This platform, led by Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, is essentially a "repository of actual enemy technology" and is a unique and precious resource in most Western defense ecosystems today.
The reason why this platform can attract a large number of foreign experts to queue up is because there are so many good things in it. The platform mainly provides two core resources. The first is the "Digital Confidential File", which contains engineering blueprints, internal chip component reports and circuit system vulnerability analysis for more than 115 modern weapons such as Russian drones, missiles and main combat vehicles. The second one is even more exaggerated. Qualified partners can even apply for the "physical loan mechanism" to directly transport the captured Russian military trophies overseas to be completely dismantled, or even take them to the shooting range for direct shooting destructive testing.
International military experts analyzed that there are three major incentives behind this wave of rush to log in. First of all, this can save foreign engineers most of the time of groping on their own, and they can quickly develop electronic warfare jamming tools to restrain the enemy with first-hand drawings. Furthermore, because Russia has recently used a large number of North Korean-made missiles and Iranian-made drones on the battlefield, registering this platform is equivalent to giving away the military technological secrets of these two mysterious countries, which is a priceless treasure for the defense units of the United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries. Finally, this is also Ukraine's win-win strategy of "exchanging intelligence for weapons." After foreign manufacturers obtain the information, they must first send their improved new weapons to Ukraine for actual combat testing.
Overall, the TrophyLab platform is like Ukraine’s “big fix for modern weapons weaknesses” prepared for global allies. This plan not only essentially promotes Ukraine to become the core of global modern electronic warfare and air defense technology research and development, but also puts Russia's proud "Dagger" hypersonic missile, T-90M tank and other star equipment into a major crisis of technology exposure. It is no wonder that the world's top arms dealers want to grab a place even if they are squeezed.
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More foreign military industrial companies will join the TrophyLab platform and carry out weapon improvements
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