Auterion starts adding terminal guidance to 50,000 Ukrainian Shrike drones
Germany is funding the roughly $103 million order, pairing SkyFall's low-cost airframes with Auterion's Skynode S terminal-guidance stack.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Ars Technica
Why it matters
The order tests whether a common software layer can scale autonomous strike capability faster and more cheaply than purpose-built Western weapons, using Ukrainian factories as the hardware base.
Lorenz Meier (@drlorenzmeier), the engineer who began building open-source drone software as an ETH Zurich student, is putting Auterion's terminal-guidance system on 50,000 Ukrainian-made strike drones under a German-funded order worth about $103 million.…
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