Germany funds 50,000 strike drones for Ukraine, source says
The order is worth about €90 million and includes drones with software that can track moving targets, Auterion CEO Lorenz Meier said.
- Germany is funding 50,000 attack drones for Ukraine, a source confirmed on July 12, marking one of the biggest purchases of drones for Kyiv by a Western government.
- The order features Shrike first-person-view drones manufactured by SkyFall, equipped with Auterion software designed to autonomously track and hit moving targets in flight.
- Auterion CEO Lorenz Meier confirmed the contract is worth about €90 million , with some drones already delivered and the rest arriving this year.
- Meier noted Auterion is helping supply 100,000 total drones for Ukraine this year, while both Germany's Defence Ministry and Ukraine's Defence Ministry declined to comment.
- Britain previously committed 150,000 drones to Ukraine last month as part of a £752 million funding package, while the Shrike drone recently topped a Pentagon-run competition leaderboard.
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The contract, valued at around 90 million euros, incorporates US technology and foresees deliveries staggered during this year.
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Before flying to Paris, to participate there in the meeting of the Coalition of Volunteers with Volodimir Zelenski, it has been made public that the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz does not go empty-handed. Germany will finance 50,000 new drones for Ukraine, a military aid package worth 90 million euros. Ukraine depends substantially on a large number of unmanned systems in the war against Russia. It produces millions of drones a year and carry…
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The models of the Ukrainian manufacturer SkyFall are equipped with automatic tracking software. It is one of the largest known drone purchases by a western state for the country.
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