NATO Who? Thank God for Baykar Defense

This cat honed his craft working with a French professeur at MIT :

So, in a way, MIT is saving lives in Ukraine.

The masters thesis of Selcuk Bayraktar : 

Aggressive landing maneuvers for unmanned aerial vehicles

VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) vehicle landing is considered to be a critically difficult task for both land, marine, and urban operations. This thesis describes one possible control approach to enable landing of unmanned aircraft systems at all attitudes, including against walls and ceilings as a way to considerably enhance the operational capability of these vehicles. The features of the research include a novel approach to trajectory tracking, whereby the primary system outputs to be tracked are smoothly scheduled according to the state of the vehicle relative to its landing area. The proposed approach is illustrated with several experiments using a low-cost three-degree-of-freedom helicopter. We also include the design details of a testbed for the demonstration of the application of our research endeavor. The testbed is a model helicopter UAV platform that has indoor and outdoor aggressive flight capability.

At least this guy did something cool in tech. His buddy at MIT - Tom Schouwenaars did a PhD in Aero and then went into finance apps at Goldman.

As far as drones go, a testament to what facility with Matlab modeling can do for you..