Thousands of AI-guided strike systems to be built annually, combining Ukrainian combat expertise with German industry.
Today Germany signed a cooperation agreement with Ukraine to enable the Auterion Airlogix Joint Venture GmbH to execute its first production contract for thousands of mid-range, heavy AI-guided autonomous strike systems.
The contract turns a February 2026 announcement at the Munich Security Conference into fully funded, large-scale production in Germany of thousands of systems per year from German production lines, and is the largest German production order for heavy autonomous strike drones to date.
Scaleup Airlogix is a Ukrainian defence technology company specialising in the development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles for military applications. Founded in 2020 and defence-focused since 2022, Airlogix has become a leading supplier to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and special operations units, with combat-proven systems deployed across the front lines.
Auterion develops open, vendor-agnostic operating systems for autonomous drones and robotic systems with customers including the US Department of War, UK Ministry of Defence, German Bundeswehr, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The mass production drives per-unit costs down fast. The result is production-rate munitions designed for contested, GPS-denied environments, built on combat-tested Ukrainian airframes and powered by Auterion’s combat-tested AI guidance, autonomous navigation, and electronic warfare resilience software.
For Ukraine, a reliable European-manufactured supply of autonomous strike coordinated through the German Federal Ministry of Defence. German industrial depth behind every unit. For the Bundeswehr, the fastest path to fielding autonomous strike at scale: combat-proven systems shipping with Auterion’s Skynode flight computer and Nemyx autonomy stack, integrating into western command architectures on day one.
For allied nations, the production line is open for scale-up beyond Germany.
Vitalii Kolesnichenko, CEO, Airlogix, shared:
“Our engineers built these systems under fire. Now, German industry is producing them at a scale that changes the equation on the battlefield. Every unit that rolls off this line carries years of real combat learning.”
According to Dr Lorenz Meier, CEO, Auterion:
“This contract proves that Europe can move at scale. We are enabling Airlogix to manufacture thousands of autonomous systems on German soil, drawing on Ukrainian combat expertise and the best autonomy software in the world. This is what allied defence industrial cooperation looks like.”
Lead image: Auterion CEO Dr Lorenz Meier, Airlogix CEO Vitalii Kolesnichenko, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz with an Airlogix autonomous strike system at the contract signing ceremony.