TAF Industries acquires majority stake in the manufacturer of Teslia UGV

Ukrainian defence tech company TAF Industries is becoming the majority owner of Phantom Technologies, the company behind the Teslia UGV. The project’s founder is selling part of his stake, while Resist.UA — the main investor in Teslia since 2024 — is fully exiting the project. Defender Media learned this from the fund.

“We have experience in scaling manufacturing operations and see this deal as an opportunity to bring a product to a new stage of development,” says TAF Industries CEO Volodymyr Zinovskyi. In early May, the company also launched production of the Lehit UGV. It was developed in collaboration with military personnel from the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence and became part of the TAF Industries ecosystem following a merger and acquisition deal.

The terms of the contract with TAF Industries and the amount of the deal are not being disclosed. It is known that Resist.UA invested in Phantom Technology in the summer of 2024 at an early stage of development. The fund’s founder, Roman Sulzhyk, says that there is a strong engineering team behind the system, and the product itself has proven its value in extremely difficult conditions.

The Teslia UGV is designed for logistics and evacuation, and was codified in January 2025. The system has a payload capacity of up to 180 kg, a six-wheel chassis, and a range of up to 4 hours of continuous operation or up to 40 km on a single charge. Maximum off-road speed is up to 10 km/h. On the Brave1 marketplace, Tesla costs UAH 307,100, or UAH 531,760 for a set including Starlink.