It’s not a storm — it’s the climate
It’s not a storm — it’s the climate
Defence Bay: Building a NATO-compliant battlefield management system from scratch
8 September 2026
Summary:
Drones, sensors, commercial hardware and dozens of different systems now have to work together on a battlefield where communications can disappear and conditions change constantly.
That’s the problem Michael Kulaczkowski and Andrzej Trznadel are tackling with Defence Bay based in one of my favourite cities!!!
So dive in to find out you build a NATO compliant Battlefield Management System from scratch. And also why I feel the Polish people deserve a Nobel Prize for their humanitarian commitments.
We talk about:
– Why traditional battlefield management systems struggle with modern warfare
– Building decentralised systems that can operate offline
– What Ukraine is teaching European defence companies
– Why defence start-ups can now iterate far faster
– And the bigger question of European defence sovereignty