Poland Expands FlyEye Drone Fleet to Give Artillery New Precision in GPS-Jammed Battles
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On 24 October 2025, WB Group and Poland’s Armament Agency signed a fourth executive agreement for multiple FlyEye UAS sets, including documentation, repairs, logistics and operator training. The buy continues implementation of a 5 September 2023 framework to supply more than 400 FlyEye systems and preserves Topaz networked ISR-to-shooter capability for Polish and allied formations.
The WB Group and Poland’s Armament Agency announced on 24 October 2025, that the parties signed the fourth executive agreement for multiple FlyEye unmanned aerial system sets, including technical documentation and repair, logistics and training packages, with deliveries scheduled by the end of 2025. The signatories were WB Group president Piotr Wojciechowski and Col. Piotr Paluch, deputy head of the Armament Agency, continuing implementation of the 5 September 2023 framework for more than 400 FlyEye systems.Follow Army Recognition on Google News at this link
FlyEye hand-launched mini-UAV with 2.5+ hr endurance, 180 km link, stabilized EO/IR; integrates with Topaz for real-time targeting (Picture source: WB Group).
At the airframe level, FlyEye is a Polish mini UAS designed by Flytronic in Gliwice for close-range ISR and fire correction. Manufacturer data fix the core specifications at a 3.6 m wingspan, 1.8 m length, cruise between 60 and 120 km/h, ceiling of 3,000 m AMSL and endurance above 2.5 hours on an electric motor, with an online transmission range advertised at up to 180 km line of sight. Total takeoff weight is around 11 kg with payload under 2 kg, a profile that keeps acoustic and thermal signatures low during covert observation.
The aircraft is hand-launched after a sub-10-minute setup, and at landing, the system automatically ejects the payload and battery module to descend by parachute, protecting the stabilized optics before the airframe touches down at a pre-programmed point. Those mechanics shorten pack-out time for small teams working from forests, urban courtyards or ad-hoc hides.
The current production turret centers on the GS3 and GS4 electro-optical heads, which combine day and IR channels, gyro stabilization and a Target Lock function that keeps sensors fixed on a specific object or grid regardless of aircraft attitude. The avionics suite can continue mission execution when GPS is degraded or lost by estimating position from wind and magnetic references, a requirement for operating under Russian-style jamming.
Compared with the U.S. RQ-20 Puma and Israel’s Skylark family, FlyEye occupies the same mini-UAS tier but leverages a slightly larger airframe to deliver comparable or longer endurance with a markedly greater line-of-sight data link, while its stabilized GS3/GS4 EO/IR payload and parachute-protected recovery are broadly analogous, and its decisive edge in Polish service stems from native integration with the Topaz fire-control network and W2MPIR recon-strike architecture that compresses the sensor-to-shooter loop beyond what Puma- or Skylark-equipped units typically achieve.
What gives FlyEye outsized value in Polish service is the way its data rides the Topaz network. Topaz, the national automated fire control and integrated combat management suite, ingests UAV video and metadata to accelerate mission generation, ballistic computation across mortars, Krab 155 mm howitzers and rocket artillery. Poland has proven Topaz interoperability through ASCA trials with the United States and Canada, which matters when U.S. and Polish units plug fires digitally during combined exercises. In practice, FlyEye slashes the sensor-to-shooter loop and provides continuous battle damage assessment as batteries displace to survive counterfire.
The same architecture underpins WB’s W2MPIR concept that teams FlyEye and FT-5 reconnaissance UAVs with Warmate loitering munitions under Topaz control. In that construct, a FlyEye team can identify, fix and hand off a target to a Warmate in a single networked loop, a recon-strike pairing that has become the signature of modern land combat.
The Polish Army fields FlyEye across line brigades, Territorial Defense formations and specialist recon elements, while the Polish Border Guard employs the type for crisis response and border surveillance. Beyond Poland, Ukraine has used FlyEye intensively since 2015 and now hosts localized production to harden wartime supply, while Malaysia entered the user community in December 2024 after training in Silesia, broadening the export ecosystem. These operators feed a shared lessons-learned cycle that directly informs payload updates and counter-EW tactics.
This month’s agreement also fits a broader institutional shift. Warsaw is standing up a dedicated drone inspectorate to unify doctrine and training, and last year signed a 100 million zloty order for 52 FlyEyes, signaling a steady pipeline that scales from tactical units to the national C2 layer. Keeping FlyEye buys at home consolidates Flytronic’s jobs in Gliwice and secures sovereign control of the ISR and precision-fires stack that Poland increasingly exports in the form of Topaz.
Two technical points are worth underscoring. First, FlyEye’s optics and comms are built for the artillery fight. GS4’s dual-channel head and Target Lock, coupled with long-range directional antennas, give gunners a stable, high-zoom view to register and adjust fire in real time. Second, survivability is not an afterthought. Electric propulsion, low-emission radios and GPS-loss procedures keep missions going under jamming, while the parachute-separated payload protects the most expensive components when operating from rough LZs.
The WB Group confirms that integration enhancements and deliveries through 2024 tightened links between FlyEye and Topaz, and today’s fourth executive agreement maintains that cadence with deliveries due by year end. Put simply, Poland is not just buying more drones. It is buying the connective tissue that makes artillery faster and more lethal, while anchoring a domestic C4ISR industry whose products are now combat validated and increasingly interoperable with U.S. systems.
Written by Evan Lerouvillois, Defense Analyst, Army Recognition Group.
Evan studied International Relations, and quickly specialized in defense and security. He is particularly interested in the influence of the defense sector on global geopolitics, and analyzes how technological innovations in defense, arms export contracts, and military strategies influence the international geopolitical scene.
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On 24 October 2025, WB Group and Poland’s Armament Agency signed a fourth executive agreement for multiple FlyEye UAS sets, including documentation, repairs, logistics and operator training. The buy continues implementation of a 5 September 2023 framework to supply more than 400 FlyEye systems and preserves Topaz networked ISR-to-shooter capability for Polish and allied formations.
The WB Group and Poland’s Armament Agency announced on 24 October 2025, that the parties signed the fourth executive agreement for multiple FlyEye unmanned aerial system sets, including technical documentation and repair, logistics and training packages, with deliveries scheduled by the end of 2025. The signatories were WB Group president Piotr Wojciechowski and Col. Piotr Paluch, deputy head of the Armament Agency, continuing implementation of the 5 September 2023 framework for more than 400 FlyEye systems.
Follow Army Recognition on Google News at this link
FlyEye hand-launched mini-UAV with 2.5+ hr endurance, 180 km link, stabilized EO/IR; integrates with Topaz for real-time targeting (Picture source: WB Group).
At the airframe level, FlyEye is a Polish mini UAS designed by Flytronic in Gliwice for close-range ISR and fire correction. Manufacturer data fix the core specifications at a 3.6 m wingspan, 1.8 m length, cruise between 60 and 120 km/h, ceiling of 3,000 m AMSL and endurance above 2.5 hours on an electric motor, with an online transmission range advertised at up to 180 km line of sight. Total takeoff weight is around 11 kg with payload under 2 kg, a profile that keeps acoustic and thermal signatures low during covert observation.
The aircraft is hand-launched after a sub-10-minute setup, and at landing, the system automatically ejects the payload and battery module to descend by parachute, protecting the stabilized optics before the airframe touches down at a pre-programmed point. Those mechanics shorten pack-out time for small teams working from forests, urban courtyards or ad-hoc hides.
The current production turret centers on the GS3 and GS4 electro-optical heads, which combine day and IR channels, gyro stabilization and a Target Lock function that keeps sensors fixed on a specific object or grid regardless of aircraft attitude. The avionics suite can continue mission execution when GPS is degraded or lost by estimating position from wind and magnetic references, a requirement for operating under Russian-style jamming.
Compared with the U.S. RQ-20 Puma and Israel’s Skylark family, FlyEye occupies the same mini-UAS tier but leverages a slightly larger airframe to deliver comparable or longer endurance with a markedly greater line-of-sight data link, while its stabilized GS3/GS4 EO/IR payload and parachute-protected recovery are broadly analogous, and its decisive edge in Polish service stems from native integration with the Topaz fire-control network and W2MPIR recon-strike architecture that compresses the sensor-to-shooter loop beyond what Puma- or Skylark-equipped units typically achieve.
What gives FlyEye outsized value in Polish service is the way its data rides the Topaz network. Topaz, the national automated fire control and integrated combat management suite, ingests UAV video and metadata to accelerate mission generation, ballistic computation across mortars, Krab 155 mm howitzers and rocket artillery. Poland has proven Topaz interoperability through ASCA trials with the United States and Canada, which matters when U.S. and Polish units plug fires digitally during combined exercises. In practice, FlyEye slashes the sensor-to-shooter loop and provides continuous battle damage assessment as batteries displace to survive counterfire.
The same architecture underpins WB’s W2MPIR concept that teams FlyEye and FT-5 reconnaissance UAVs with Warmate loitering munitions under Topaz control. In that construct, a FlyEye team can identify, fix and hand off a target to a Warmate in a single networked loop, a recon-strike pairing that has become the signature of modern land combat.
The Polish Army fields FlyEye across line brigades, Territorial Defense formations and specialist recon elements, while the Polish Border Guard employs the type for crisis response and border surveillance. Beyond Poland, Ukraine has used FlyEye intensively since 2015 and now hosts localized production to harden wartime supply, while Malaysia entered the user community in December 2024 after training in Silesia, broadening the export ecosystem. These operators feed a shared lessons-learned cycle that directly informs payload updates and counter-EW tactics.
This month’s agreement also fits a broader institutional shift. Warsaw is standing up a dedicated drone inspectorate to unify doctrine and training, and last year signed a 100 million zloty order for 52 FlyEyes, signaling a steady pipeline that scales from tactical units to the national C2 layer. Keeping FlyEye buys at home consolidates Flytronic’s jobs in Gliwice and secures sovereign control of the ISR and precision-fires stack that Poland increasingly exports in the form of Topaz.
Two technical points are worth underscoring. First, FlyEye’s optics and comms are built for the artillery fight. GS4’s dual-channel head and Target Lock, coupled with long-range directional antennas, give gunners a stable, high-zoom view to register and adjust fire in real time. Second, survivability is not an afterthought. Electric propulsion, low-emission radios and GPS-loss procedures keep missions going under jamming, while the parachute-separated payload protects the most expensive components when operating from rough LZs.
The WB Group confirms that integration enhancements and deliveries through 2024 tightened links between FlyEye and Topaz, and today’s fourth executive agreement maintains that cadence with deliveries due by year end. Put simply, Poland is not just buying more drones. It is buying the connective tissue that makes artillery faster and more lethal, while anchoring a domestic C4ISR industry whose products are now combat validated and increasingly interoperable with U.S. systems.
Written by Evan Lerouvillois, Defense Analyst, Army Recognition Group.
Evan studied International Relations, and quickly specialized in defense and security. He is particularly interested in the influence of the defense sector on global geopolitics, and analyzes how technological innovations in defense, arms export contracts, and military strategies influence the international geopolitical scene.
