Auterion-Airlogix joint venture completes first airframes and starts building more than 5,000 systems under a German government contract
Germany has started mass-producing heavy strike drones on its own soil for the first time. The Auterion-Airlogix joint venture has completed its first airframes and begun serial production of more than 5,000 systems, according to Auterion. The German government is funding the contract.
The order covers two platforms: Seth X, a medium-range strike system, and Anubis, a heavy strike system.
A new domestic capability
The line gives Germany precision strike capacity that its industrial base has not offered before. Manufacturers build the systems at scale, using consumer-electronics supply chains rather than the cost structures of traditional missile programmes. Each system costs a fraction of the munitions it replaces.
The German and Ukrainian governments backed the joint venture, which launched in February 2026. It reached first airframes within six months. The partners achieved that pace by building on airframe designs refined through years of operational use, rather than starting new development programmes. Existing designs, an established software stack and German manufacturing capacity keep unit costs low and delivery dates firm.
Software and human control
Both platforms run Auterion’s software. It provides AI-guided terminal navigation and GNSS-denied operation, and it allows an upgrade to swarm coordination through Nemyx. A human operator designates every target, and the software automates execution only after that decision. Each system leaves the line ready to operate in contested electronic environments.
“The first airframe off the line is where a contract becomes capability,” said Dr Lorenz Meier, founder and CEO of Auterion. He said Germany now has a production line for “affordable precision mass” and that the companies will deliver fielded systems this year.
Vitalii Kolesnichenko, CEO of Airlogix, described serial production as a milestone. He said the partnership combines Airlogix’s combat-proven airframes, Auterion’s autonomy software and German industrial capacity.
Built to replicate
The companies designed the production model for repetition. They can set up the same combination of proven airframes, Auterion software and local manufacturing for other European and allied customers. That would turn a single national programme into repeatable industrial capacity for the alliance.
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