KNDS Unveils the Mataris MTO-T Loitering Munition and a 20-Foot HX-2/METIS Launch Container

At Eurosatory in Paris on 17 June 2026, KNDS positioned itself as Europe's lead land-systems integrator and pushed two drone-warfare lines at once. KNDS Ammo France expanded its Mataris family — described as France's first sovereign loitering-munition range, developed with Delair and EOS — by unveiling the MTO-T, or Munition TéléOpérée – Terrestre, its first ground-launched loitering munition. The company says the MTO-T responds directly to lessons from high-intensity operations in Ukraine, addressing environments where aerial drones fail: dense urban spaces, underground areas, and zones under satellite-navigation jamming or anti-drone saturation.

The Mataris family already has a service entrant. The MX-10 quadcopter, carrying a 550 g fragmentation payload against infantry and light vehicles, has been in French Army service since December 2025. KNDS also detailed an onboard variant for armoured vehicles, the MT10, available from mid-2027, and an artillery-launched loitering munition extending engagement range to roughly 150 km.

Separately, KNDS Deutschland presented a 20-foot ISO container mock-up with Helsing, TYTAN and the integrator steep. The container fires Helsing HX-2 strike drones — software-defined, jamming-resistant, ranged to 100 km — and TYTAN TI-1 METIS kinetic interceptors against hostile UAVs, from a single self-contained firing point holding dozens to over one hundred small effectors. The configuration is a direct response to Ukraine's June 2025 Operation Spiderweb, which launched 117 FPV drones from concealed truck-borne containers against Russian airbases.

The proprietary read. The pattern across both announcements is Ukrainian field improvisation hardened into a standardised, exportable Western architecture — ground-hugging munitions for the contested last kilometre, and a shipping-container launcher that separates the operator from the launch point and pairs offence with organic counter-drone defence in one box. Notably, neither system is a clean-sheet European design so much as a captured lesson: KNDS is supplying the integration and warhead expertise around effectors that Helsing and TYTAN already build. Whether the container moves from mock-up to a fielded, certified system is the open question. The Eurosatory drone push is tracked in Signal No. 86.