Airbility CEO and co-founder Lee Jin-mo / Courtesy of Airbility
This is the first in a series of interviews with the heads of promising startups that are pioneers of their respective fields and seek to go public in the near future. The Korea Times will run five more such interviews through the year’s end. — ED.
The recent U.S.-Israeli war against Iran underscored an increasingly costly reality of modern warfare: Shooting down a low-cost drone can require an interceptor missile worth more than 100 times as much.
As inexpensive drones become more common on the battlefield, militaries are searching for more cost-effective ways to defend against them. That shift is creating new opportunities for companies developing next-generation counter-drone technologies.
One of them is Airbility, a Korean startup developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered counter-drone system built around a reusable high-speed unmanned aircraft system.
