Auterion Airlogix Starts Series Production of Seth-X and Anubis Strike Drones Near Munich, About EUR 300m
Munich, 3 September 2026
Key points
- Auterion Airlogix, the German-Ukrainian joint venture, has begun series production of the Seth-X and Anubis strike drones near Munich, with a second production site planned in eastern Germany
- Seth-X is built for runs above 5,000 units; Anubis is rated to a 1,500 km range carrying a 40 kg payload
- Both systems use GNSS-independent guidance built on Auterion's Nemyx software stack
- Production is federally financed; industry sources cited by Handelsblatt put the contract at roughly EUR 300 million, with completion targeted by mid-2027
- The joint venture's first contract, announced 14 April, specified production of "thousands" of systems per year in Germany under Ukrainian export permissions, with no value disclosed at the time
Auterion Airlogix has moved from its April contract to series production, hartpunkt reported on 3 September, with the Seth-X and Anubis strike drones now assembled near Munich and a second site planned in eastern Germany — under a contract industry sources put at roughly EUR 300 million, financed by the federal government.
The joint venture, formed by Auterion and the Ukrainian manufacturer Airlogix, received its first German government contract on 14 April specifying production "at industrial scale (thousands of systems per year)" from German lines, under Ukrainian export permissions, with no figure disclosed. hartpunkt's 3 September account describes that contract now converted into running series production: Seth-X, rated for runs above 5,000 units, and Anubis, a 1,500 km, 40 kg-payload strike drone, both built on Auterion's Nemyx software for navigation without GNSS in contested, jammed environments. dpa, citing Handelsblatt's industry sources, puts the contract at approximately EUR 300 million, financed by the federal government, with completion targeted for mid-2027. A second production line is planned in eastern Germany, expanding capacity beyond the Munich site.
The contract sits alongside Auterion's other German government work: the company's terminal-guidance software already equips the 50,000 Skyfall Shrike first-person-view drones Berlin is funding for Ukraine, disclosed in July. Airlogix brings Ukrainian combat-tested airframe designs to a German manufacturing base that neither company could offer alone — Auterion's software pedigree without domestic hardware production, Airlogix's frontline design experience without German-scale factories or financing.
The airframe line has moved onto German soil, which the July arrangement did not require. The Shrike stack disclosed in July was German money for Ukrainian-built airframes running Auterion software; this contract puts the Ukrainian design on a Bavarian line under Ukrainian export permissions, with a second German site to follow. The joint venture itself dates from February's Munich Security Conference and was one of the four German-Ukrainian ventures Großwald recorded at Berlin Defence Week in April. As Signal No. 139 noted, the value and the mid-2027 completion date rest on dpa's industry sources, not on the company or the ministry; neither has put a figure on the record.
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