Tytan Technologies Founder Balazs Nagy for the Financial Times

In a light-filled workshop in Munich, precision takes precedence over spectacle. Prototype drones and exposed components lie in careful order, reflecting the discipline behind Balazs Nagy’s work. As founder of Tytan Technologies, Nagy is focused on a challenge that has rapidly moved to the centre of modern security: how to defend against unmanned aerial threats.

Rather than building drones, Tytan develops the systems designed to stop them. Its counter-drone technology is engineered to detect, track and neutralise hostile aerial intrusions with precision — a response to the growing asymmetry of contemporary conflict.

The images show Balazs Nagy in conversation with a Financial Times editor — moments of quiet concentration in which ideas take shape through gesture and exchange. There is little sense of performance. Instead, the visual language conveys responsibility, technical rigour and a measured strategic restraint.

Commissioned for Financial Times, the series reflects a broader shift in Europe’s defence landscape, where small, highly specialised startups are becoming essential actors. In Munich, Nagy’s work embodies a new generation of defence technology — designed not to project power, but to protect against it.

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