Avengers Labs opened to Ukrainian companies
On 10 August 2026 Ukraine's Ministry of Defence gave Ukrainian defence companies access to the Avengers Labs platform, an annotated dataset of 5 million battlefield frames for training models for unmanned systems. The first companies signed licensing agreements, and the release states that partner countries may join as well.
Why it matters
Data gathered by one state during a war became a resource it hands out under licence and against a list of conditions. Developers of unmanned systems gained a dataset a private company cannot assemble, and the state gained a way to decide who uses it: the tests excluding ties to the aggressor state and sanctioned entities are written into a government resolution.
The platform was built by the Center for Innovation and Development of Defence Technologies, the team behind the DELTA combat system. Most of the data, per the release, comes straight from DELTA and is continuously supplemented with what has practical value in combat; it covers tanks, artillery, air defence systems, infantry and aerial targets including Shahed and reconnaissance drones. An automated target detection system trained on the dataset already runs in DELTA and processes more than 100,000 drone video streams a month; in the ministry's words it detects 70 per cent of all enemy targets in real time, by day and by night. The release names two principal scenarios the trained models support: an operator acquires a target and the drone then adjusts its own trajectory during the final stage; and an unmanned system enters a designated area, detects a target itself and acts according to the mission logic. The terms and criteria — no ties to the aggressor state among owners, beneficial owners or management, no business in it, no sanctions, and no presence in temporarily occupied territory — are set by Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 310, adopted in March 2026. What the record does not claim. That models trained on the platform outperform others: the release gives only the figure for the system already fielded in DELTA. That autonomous engagement without a human is involved: the release describes the scenarios as set out above, and the record goes no further. How many companies signed: only 'the first' are mentioned.