{"id":"e5abab87-f435-4788-91f5-4d93baa37892","companyId":"5ac1ebcb-8e85-431d-b134-3ea03341e00e","modelName":"HX-2 (and HF-1)","slug":"helsing-hx-2","description":"Helsing, founded in March 2021 in Munich by Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf, and Niklas Koehler and chaired by Spotify's Daniel Ek, began as a European defense-artificial-intelligence software company building battlefield ISR fusion, the Altra strike-reconnaissance system, and the Centaur air-combat agent flown in a June 2025 Gripen E trial, and has since moved into strike-drone hardware. Its HX-2 is an electric X-wing precision strike munition with roughly 100 kilometers of range, about 250 kilometers per hour, and up to 5 kilograms of payload, with onboard AI for electronic-warfare resistance, built at the company's southern-Germany Resilience Factory at a stated capacity of more than a thousand per month, while its HF-1 is a plywood-fuselage AI loitering munition with GPS-independent navigation manufactured together with Ukrainian industry. Helsing has raised to a 12-billion-euro valuation through a 600-million-euro Series D in June 2025, roughly 1.37 billion euro in total. The registry records its drone line at production maturity: a German-underwritten 4,000-unit HF-1 order with 1,950 units delivered to Ukraine provides the verified fielding anchor, alongside a 6,000-unit HX-2 order announced in February 2025 and an operational serial-production factory, though the separate air-combat software side such as Centaur remains at trial stage and should not halo the whole company. On AI substance the GPS-independent navigation and electronic-warfare resistance are credible and battlefield-relevant, corroborated by Ukrainian reporting of HF-1 use, but claims of full electronic-warfare immunity are largely company-attested with thin independent validation, and a reported 18-billion-dollar 2026 round, full delivery against the HX-2 order, and sustained thousand-per-month throughput are recorded as claimed but not verified.","formFactor":"aerial","maturityStage":"production","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Helsing (founded Mar 2021, Munich; founders Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf, Niklas Koehler; chaired by Daniel Ek) began as a defense-AI software company (battlefield ISR fusion, Altra strike-recon, Centaur air-combat agent flown in a Jun 2025 Gripen E trial) and now makes strike drones. Funding to a EUR 12B valuation (Series D EUR 600M, Jun 2025); ~EUR 1.37B total raised. HF-1: 4,000-unit order underwritten by Germany, with 1,950 delivered to Ukraine (the verified fielding anchor). HX-2: 6,000-unit order announced Feb 13 2025."},{"label":"Maturity = production (drone line)","value":"German-funded orders + ~1,950 HF-1 actually delivered to a combat theater + an operational serial-production factory clear the fielding gate -> production. NOTE: the software/air-combat side (Centaur) is at trial/evaluation, NOT production - don't let drone maturity halo the whole company."},{"label":"AI-substance: substantive but partly company-attested","value":"GPS-independent AI navigation + EW resistance are credible and battlefield-relevant; Ukrainian-side reporting corroborates HF-1 operational use. But the depth of 'full EW immunity' is largely Helsing-attested; independent technical validation is thin. Substantive autonomy with marketing inflation on the absolutism."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"A ~$18B / $1.2B 2026 round (reported in-progress, not confirmed closed); full HX-2 6,000 delivery (an order, not yet evidenced at scale); >1,000 HX-2/month sustained throughput (stated capacity, not audited output); 'full resistance to electronic warfare' (vendor claim)."}],"specs":"HX-2: electric X-wing precision strike munition, ~100 km range, ~250 km/h, up to 5 kg payload, onboard AI for EW resistance; made at Helsing's southern-Germany Resilience Factory (stated >1,000/month capacity), paired with Altra recon-strike software. HF-1: AI loitering munition, plywood fuselage, GPS-independent AI navigation using stored map data, manufactured with Ukrainian industry.","formFactor":"aerial (AI strike / loitering munition: HF-1 plywood-fuselage + HX-2 electric X-wing precision strike)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsing_(company)","title":"Helsing (founded 2021, Munich; Reil/Scherf/Koehler; funding to EUR 12B valuation Jun 2025)","sourceName":"Wikipedia"},{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/germanys-helsing-doubles-down-on-drones-for-ukraine-scales-up-manufacturing/","title":"Helsing scales drone manufacturing for Ukraine (HX-2 6,000-unit order)","sourceName":"TechCrunch"},{"url":"https://helsing.ai/newsroom/helsing-to-produce-6000-additional-strike-drones-for-ukraine","title":"Helsing to produce 6,000 HX-2 strike drones for Ukraine (Feb 13 2025)","sourceName":"Helsing (official)"},{"url":"https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/smart_plywood_drone_helsing_hf_1_makes_difference_in_ukraine...-14090.html","title":"Helsing HF-1 in Ukraine (1,950 delivered of 4,000 German-funded)","sourceName":"Defense Express"}],"aliases":["Helsing HX-2","Helsing HF-1","HX-2","HF-1"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T20:34:49.457Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T20:34:49.457Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/helsing-hx-2","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/helsing-hx-2","name":"HX-2 (and HF-1)","alternateName":["Helsing HX-2","Helsing HF-1","HX-2","HF-1"],"description":"Helsing, founded in March 2021 in Munich by Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf, and Niklas Koehler and chaired by Spotify's Daniel Ek, began as a European defense-artificial-intelligence software company building battlefield ISR fusion, the Altra strike-reconnaissance system, and the Centaur air-combat agent flown in a June 2025 Gripen E trial, and has since moved into strike-drone hardware. Its HX-2 is an electric X-wing precision strike munition with roughly 100 kilometers of range, about 250 kilometers per hour, and up to 5 kilograms of payload, with onboard AI for electronic-warfare resistance, built at the company's southern-Germany Resilience Factory at a stated capacity of more than a thousand per month, while its HF-1 is a plywood-fuselage AI loitering munition with GPS-independent navigation manufactured together with Ukrainian industry. Helsing has raised to a 12-billion-euro valuation through a 600-million-euro Series D in June 2025, roughly 1.37 billion euro in total. The registry records its drone line at production maturity: a German-underwritten 4,000-unit HF-1 order with 1,950 units delivered to Ukraine provides the verified fielding anchor, alongside a 6,000-unit HX-2 order announced in February 2025 and an operational serial-production factory, though the separate air-combat software side such as Centaur remains at trial stage and should not halo the whole company. On AI substance the GPS-independent navigation and electronic-warfare resistance are credible and battlefield-relevant, corroborated by Ukrainian reporting of HF-1 use, but claims of full electronic-warfare immunity are largely company-attested with thin independent validation, and a reported 18-billion-dollar 2026 round, full delivery against the HX-2 order, and sustained thousand-per-month throughput are recorded as claimed but not verified.","identifier":"e5abab87-f435-4788-91f5-4d93baa37892","category":"aerial","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}