TL;DR: With hundreds of retrofitted Cold War-era factories, cheap engineers, and a front-row seat to the Russo-Ukrainian war, former Eastern Bloc countries are becoming the Shenzhen of drone manufacturing. From Ukraine’s TAF Drones ($180M revenue) and Poland’s WB Group ($400M) to upstarts like Estonia’s Threod Systems ($44M, up 87% YoY), these ex-Soviet economies are turning into the drone arsenal for all of NATO. For more, check out our full report and dataset on Threod Systems...