TL;DRUFORCE, a Ukrainian-British defence technology startup formed from nine merged companies, has conducted more than 150,000 combat missions, achieved a billion-dollar valuation, and is at the centre of what Ukraine says was the first military operation in history in which territory was seized using only robots and drones. The company is scaling production as unmanned warfare moves from hypothesis to balance sheet. In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his forces had, for the first time in the history of warfare, seized an enemy position using only unmanned systems. No infantry. No human soldiers entering the contested ground. Drones…