Berlin is paying about 90 million euros to put Auterion's Skynode S terminal guidance on 50,000 of Skyfall's Shrike FPV drones, one of the largest known Western drone orders for Kyiv.
Russia can't bomb the factories arming Ukraine, so it targets the will behind them: a 50,000-account bot network, Kremlin money in the AfD, and Germans recruited to spy and set fires.
Airbus's U760 Ravenstorm is an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft concept — a stealthy loyal wingman for air-to-air combat, strike and jamming unveiled at ILA Berlin 2026 and aimed at Germany's post-FCAS combat-drone race. So far it is a model, not an aircraft.
Alpine Eagle is the airborne outlier of Europe's counter-drone wave — a Munich startup whose Sentinel system puts the whole kill chain in the sky: a reusable "mothership" drone that flies high, carries interceptor drones, and hunts hostile drones from above rather than from a ground launcher.
Tytan is the German flagship of Europe's interceptor-drone wave — AI hit-to-kill drones (fixed-wing METIS, multicopter EOS) combat-used in Ukraine, under a Bundeswehr contract, with a NATO Innovation Fund-backed Series A and a factory scaling to 3,000 a month.
The submarine that "disappears" — Germany's Type 212/214 pioneered near-silent hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion, letting a non-nuclear boat stay submerged for weeks and slip past sonar so well it has "sunk" carriers in NATO war games. The world's benchmark export AIP submarine.
Rheinmetall's modular tracked IFV — a clean-sheet fighting vehicle with a digital Lance turret (30 or 35mm cannon + Spike missiles) and a reconfigurable hull. Bought by Hungary, picked by Ukraine as its standard IFV, and headed for Italian co-production.
Rheinmetall's clean-sheet tank — a Panther built around a 130mm autoloaded gun (50% more reach than the Leopard's 120mm), a three-crew turret, integrated loitering munitions and active protection. Germany's bid to leapfrog the Leopard while the Franco-German MGCS tank stalls.
Berlin will take 40% of the Leopard 2 maker KNDS, matching France and clearing a €15-18 billion IPO. The deal shows Europe paying for rearmament two ways at once: the state buying back legacy primes, and venture capital flooding the startups.
Germany's combat-proven eVTOL loitering munition — a VTOL, AI-guided one-way attacker that pairs with reconnaissance drones for EW-resilient precision strikes.
Germany's combat-proven eVTOL fixed-wing reconnaissance drone — built for jammed environments, upgraded with AI target detection and acoustic artillery location, and the backbone of Ukraine's tactical ISR fleet.
The Cold War-vintage twin-35 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun revived as Ukraine's cost-effective counter to massed Shahed drone attacks, and the weapon system that forced Western armies to rethink short-range air defense.
Germany's premier tracked IFV — a 30 mm airburst cannon, modular armor, and the most powerful engine in its class, equipping the Bundeswehr's Panzergrenadier units and the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force.
Roderich Kiesewetter says Berlin certifies weapons one at a time while Ukraine runs ten to fifteen design cycles in the same window, leaving the Bundeswehr's drones outdated on arrival.
Lithuania says the next US troop rotation is "under review," leaving it without an American armored battalion for the first time since 2020, and pushing the Baltic deterrence burden, and the money, onto Europe.
