Helsing tedesco svela il drone da combattimento “Europa”
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/germanys-helsing-unveils-europa-combat-drone-2025-09-25/
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Helsing tedesco svela il drone da combattimento “Europa”
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/germanys-helsing-unveils-europa-combat-drone-2025-09-25/
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“Europa”-drone from Helsing should meet Putins body as soon as possible.
Especially effective against vampires.
Buy European arms! We will enrich the American pigs no longer
r/divestfromUSA
Practical? Functional? Who cares it looks cool as fuck!
Interesting development,will be curious to see how this technology is implemented
What is the yearly production capacity on these?
Scant help if they can just make a few each year.
Great, Europe has no low end ucav, at best dedicated jammer drone with low performance, only high end right now with neuron being develloped.
Eventually hopefully there would be low end ucav with the ability to carry internally, like 2 scalp / taurus/taurus neo / stratus missiles / meteor / any armaments that can do sead like aasm xlr.
Because i really doubt of the point of launching normal guided bomb from those except if they are really really cheap and in numbers.
* Helsing unveils plans for autonomous UCAV military drone
* Defence AI startup aims for first flight in 2027
* Planning investments of hundreds of millions of euros
TUSSENHAUSEN, Germany, Sept 25 (Reuters) – German defence startup Helsing unveiled a new autonomous combat drone on Thursday, joining a race to build remote-piloted systems that can swarm into battle with fellow robots or team up with crewed fighters to help reshape the future of air warfare.
Unveiling a full-size model of the angular, V-tailed drone at a factory outside Munich, Helsing said the “CA-1 Europa” would stage a first flight in 2027 and become available for military operations within the following four years.
Helsing is the latest military tech firm to make a pitch to become a primary manufacturer of weapon systems in competition with heavyweight arms companies, reflecting the increasing role of AI and pressing demands for faster development times.
Weighing four tonnes, the CA-1 Europa belongs to a fast-developing category called Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles that are cheaper and more dispensable than classic fighters as air forces face harshly contested environments and higher costs.
Helsing said the AI-powered drone would operate alone, in clusters of other uncrewed vehicles or at the direction of advanced fighter jets in a so-called “wingman” formation.
Last year, the U.S. Air Force selected California-based startup Anduril and Reaper drone manufacturer General Atomics to develop the first fleet of “Collaborative Combat Aircraft”, which can perform missions such as jamming or act as decoys.
In June, Airbus presented a lifesize model of its own concept for a drone designed to fly alongside the current generation of jets like the Eurofighter Typhoon.Helsing said it was planning investments of hundreds of millions of euros in the project, which would involve collaboration with other unspecified European companies.
It declined to say what weapons it would be able to carry or how much it would cost, other than saying it would be a “fraction” of the cost of an ordinary fighter jet.
Founded in 2021, Helsing specialises in AI software and has also pivoted to providing systems for smaller strike drones for Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s [2022 full-scale invasion](https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-russia-war/).
Cool that they’ve made some high quality, futuristic looking drone that costs bazillion euro per unit but what Ukraine has shown is that we need a lot of paper, duct taped drones for 50 Hryvna each that are capable of dropping grenades on them sukas
I prefere Ukrainian ones, cheap and battle tested, probably the best price/value ratio in the world.
It’s amazing Europe finally wakes up where it really matters (smaller startups and drone).
Please avoid usual Hubris of wanting the thing too beautiful and expensive. We need cheap and plentiful weapons.
For example, lots of European small shops are world leaders in RC jet engines. They have the know how and the experience of building ultra cheap okish micro jet engines. Europeans should capitalize on this…
> The “CA-1 Europa” would stage a first flight in 2027 and become available for military operations within the following four years.
I’m sure it’s awesome tech but I find it quite remarkable how much faster Ukraine comes to deployable solutions for their immediate war time issues.
This is good.
What about the cheap as fuck drones that we can mass produce to overwhelm the ennemy’s defense ?
Good stuff. But is Peter Thiel not also invested heavily into this? We have to be real careful there
They had to shove the Bavarian cringe minister in there, didn’t they…