Dan Magy spent years building jammers to shoot enemy drones out of the sky. Then he decided the real fight was over who could build drones faster than the enemy could shoot them down.
After selling his counter-drone company Citadel Defense in 2021, Magy lasted six weeks in retirement before founding Firestorm — a startup building modular, 3D-printed drones alongside shipping container factories that print spare parts and aircraft within hours of landing near the front line.
In this episode of Defense Disruptors, Magy explains why he thinks the drone industry is heading for a bubble, why he sees the repair-parts side of the business as Firestorm’s real “moat,” and why he thinks Europe still isn’t spending enough to keep pace with the war it’s watching.
Read the full episode on NextGen Defense: Defense Disruptors: How Firestorm Turns Shipping Containers Into Frontline Drone Factories
