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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…
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…
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…
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.
On Decoder, Skydio CEO Adam Bry walked back his company's posted no-weapons pledge, called drawing red lines "dangerously misguided," and conceded China still builds better drones.
Berlin Air Show this week, each chasing the same prize: the contract to fly as Germany's robotic wingman by 2029.
Seven hundred drones rose over Barcelona on June 10 and slowly assembled the face of a man who died exactly one hundred years earlier. Antoni Gaudí, the architect of the Sagrada Família, looked down on his unfinished masterpiece in points of light while crowds watched from the streets below. Hours earlier, Pope Leo XIV had…
Mercedes-Benz signed a memorandum of understanding with Munich counter-drone startup Tytan Technologies at the ILA 2026 air show in Berlin to develop vehicle-mounted systems that detect and shoot down small drones, built on the military G-Class SUV and the Sprinter van. The agreement, witnessed by Germany’s federal economics minister, makes the Stuttgart carmaker the latest…
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