Sypaq has won the 2023 AFR Boss Most Innovative Companies Award, for its flat packed cardboard drones, which have been serving on the front line in Ukraine.
The technology industry is awash with start-up entrepreneurs who insist that their product is life-changing and globally significant, when the reality is far less exciting. The opposite is the case at Sypaq Systems, a 31- year-old Melbourne-based engineering and technology company, which has created ingenious drone technology that has become an essential part of Ukraine’s attempts to repel the Russian army.
“When my dad George left the Air Force to start Sypaq in 1992 – and even when we established our sensors and surveillance business unit more than ten years ago – the idea of making a cardboard drone was not on the road map,” Sypaq’s managing director David Vicino tells“Fundamentally, the Corvo PPDS was dreamed up because we hired smart people and created a culture of innovation, aimed at solving specific problems for our customers – exploring the art of the possible as part of this process.
“One of the emerging trends from Ukraine was increased demands for drones to support capture of aerial imagery. To meet that need we developed an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance module to help improve that process.”If reports are to believed its drones have also taken on an even more dramatic wartime purpose, after soldiers modified them to carry explosives.in a kamikaze drone attack at an airfield inside Russia, about 170 km from the Ukrainian-Russian border.
When news of Sypaq’s drones being used in Ukraine started being reported, Vicino says he and his staff saw a video of a primary school student, who had designed and built a cardboard drone as a science experiment, inspired by PPDS.
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