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Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat collaborative combat aircraft flying over land

Weaponized drones

Boeing Wants To Build The Ghost Bat Everywhere At Once

Boeing wants MQ-28 Ghost Bat production distributed across multiple countries, with German partners named as Europe pursues defense independence.

Rafael SuárezJul 31

CiS ORKA drone landing in the ORKA Dock on the deck of a FLANQ Q-RECON 24 uncrewed surface vessel

Industry

CiS ORKA Dock Demand Outruns The 30-Person German Factory Behind The Moving-Deck Drone First

German drone maker CiS says European demand for its ORKA Dock and drone now exceeds what its 30-person Rostock factory can build.

Haye KestelooJul 27

Helsing HX-2 strike drone displayed at an industry booth

Factory

Helsing To Build HX-2 Strike Drones In West Virginia

Germany's Helsing is bringing HX-2 strike-drone production to Martinsburg, West Virginia, with a $50 million plant designed to build more than 2,000 loitering munitions a month for the U.S. market.

Rafael SuárezJul 16

Auterion

Auterion CEO Says Drones Are Becoming Cell Phones. He’s Right, And He’s Selling The Operating System

Lorenz Meier picked a fight with half the defense industry on July 1. The Auterion founder, creator of the Pixhawk flight controller and the widely adopted open-source PX4 autopilot, published an essay arguing that the United States, Germany, and Ukraine now buy attack drones the way consumers buy cell phones: interchangeable hardware, replaced every two…

Haye KestelooJul 6

DJI

DJI Matrice 4 Series Drones Multiply German Fawn Rescues Twentyfold Before Mowing Season

A Bavarian wildlife group that once pulled 10 to 15 fawns a year out of meadows before the mowers arrived now saves between 300 and 350, and the difference is a thermal camera in the sky. Rehkitz-Rettung Mangfalltal, a volunteer rescue organization operating in the Mangfall valley south of Munich, has folded the DJI Matrice…

Haye KestelooJul 1

Ukraine

Tytan Technologies Eyes 3,000 Interceptors Per Month

Tytan Technologies, a Munich-based counter-drone startup, is preparing to open a new German factory capable of producing 3,000 autonomous interceptors per month, with production scheduled to start this August. CEO and co-founder Balázs Nagy confirmed the expansion to Defense News, pointing to sustained demand driven by the war in Ukraine. Tytan’s interceptors are already in…

Rafael SuárezJun 26

Ukraine

Thiel and Sequoia Bet $570M on German Drones

Stark Defence, the Berlin startup that builds loitering munitions for the German military, closed a €500 million (roughly $570 million) funding round this week led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The deal values the two-year-old company at approximately €3.5 billion ($3.65 billion) and brings total capital raised to €660 million. Stark went…

Rafael SuárezJun 24

Germany

Urban Ray Pushes Medical Drone Logistics Forward

The useful part is what that implies, because the real bottleneck in drone logistics has never been the flight alone, it has been the operational chain around it.

Rafael SuárezJun 22

Germany

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