Europe
An 18-month-old Berlin startup is now a Bundeswehr strike-drone supplier
STARK Defence, founded 18 months ago, is scaling into a core Bundeswehr loitering-munition supplier, and says a European NATO buyer just quadrupled its Virtus order.
The Pentagon's Crucible 2 turns a $54.6 billion autonomy budget line into a contracted shoot-off, and the 25-firm roster shows who the Pentagon is betting on to fly the swarms.
STARK Defence, founded 18 months ago, is scaling into a core Bundeswehr loitering-munition supplier, and says a European NATO buyer just quadrupled its Virtus order.
Helsing showed the RX-1 quadruped and its Area 9 research unit in Paris on June 1 and said it will give the robot to universities rather than sell it, as Ukraine fields tens of thousands of ground robots and China's Unitree dominates the quadruped market.