{"id":"152aed3b-7c02-41a8-9ea1-914e3c484f0d","modelId":"e5abab87-f435-4788-91f5-4d93baa37892","versionId":null,"locationId":"7bc08a31-4d9a-48bc-86fc-f2114789d4b5","operatorId":"6d5f5f0a-afef-4160-b9bc-5652c3304aff","ownerId":null,"slug":"helsing-hf1-ukraine","status":"operational","firstSeen":"2024-11-18T00:00:00.000Z","statusChangeReason":null,"sourceQualityTier":null,"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://helsing.ai/newsroom/helsing-to-produce-6000-additional-strike-drones-for-ukraine","title":"Helsing to produce 6,000 additional HX-2 strike drones for Ukraine -- references prior 4,000 HF-1 delivery already underway (Helsing official, Feb 2025)","mediaType":"article","sourceName":"Helsing (official)","publishedAt":"2025-02-13"},{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/germanys-helsing-doubles-down-on-drones-for-ukraine-scales-up-manufacturing/","title":"Germany's Helsing doubles down on drones for Ukraine -- Boris Pistorius confirmed 4,000 HF-1 on Nov 18 2024 (TechCrunch, Feb 2025)","mediaType":"article","sourceName":"TechCrunch","publishedAt":"2025-02-13"},{"url":"https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/smart_plywood_drone_helsing_hf_1_makes_difference_in_ukraine_quantities_and_operational_details_revealed-14090.html","title":"Smart Plywood Drone Helsing HF-1 Makes Difference in Ukraine: Quantities and Operational Details Revealed (Defense Express)","mediaType":"article","sourceName":"Defence Express (UA)","publishedAt":"2025-01-01"}],"notes":"On 18 November 2024, German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius confirmed that Germany had committed 4,000 Helsing HF-1 loitering munitions to Ukraine. The HF-1 is an AI-guided strike drone made partly from plywood, produced in partnership with Ukrainian industry to reduce supply-chain vulnerability. By early 2025 approximately 1,000-1,950 had been delivered; Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) used them operationally for strike missions. The Helsing official February 2025 announcement describes the HF-1 as a \"previous order\" already underway, distinct from the new HX-2 contract. Note: Ukraine subsequently halted further HX-2 orders (the next-generation electrically propelled variant) over reported operational issues; this deployment record covers the HF-1 programme only.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Drone type","value":"Helsing HF-1 loitering munition (AI-guided, partly plywood, ~100 km range)"},{"label":"Order size","value":"4,000 HF-1 units confirmed by German MoD, November 2024"},{"label":"Delivery status","value":"~1,000-1,950 delivered by early 2025; production co-located with Ukrainian industry"},{"label":"Operator","value":"Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (primary reported user)"},{"label":"HX-2 note","value":"Ukraine halted further HX-2 (6k contract Feb 2025) orders; HF-1 contract proceeded separately"}],"reviewNote":null,"exposureHours":null,"exposureBasis":null,"customerSegment":null,"scaleTier":null,"contractValueUsd":null,"contractValueBasis":null,"customerCompanyId":null,"customerExternalName":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-11T22:17:25.919Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-12T00:11:08.623Z","model":{"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","company":{"id":"5ac1ebcb-8e85-431d-b134-3ea03341e00e","name":"Helsing","slug":"helsing","description":"European defense-AI company (founded 2021, Munich) that builds AI software (Altra, Centaur) and AI strike drones (HX-2, HF-1); EUR 12B valuation; HF-1 fielded in Ukraine.","status":"private (EUR 12B valuation, Jun 2025)","founded":2021,"hq":"Munich, Germany","fundingTotal":null,"type":"both","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)"}],"keyFacts":[{"label":"Products","value":"HX-2 + HF-1 AI strike drones (+ Altra/Centaur defense-AI software)."},{"label":"Fielding","value":"1,950 HF-1 delivered to Ukraine (of 4,000 German-funded); 6,000 HX-2 ordered."}],"aliases":["Helsing AI","Helsing GmbH"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T20:34:48.690Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T20:34:48.690Z"}},"version":null,"location":{"id":"7bc08a31-4d9a-48bc-86fc-f2114789d4b5","name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","kind":"country","parentLocationId":null,"region":null,"lat":null,"lng":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","aliases":["UA"],"collisionRisk":"high","reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-05-31T04:22:20.140Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-31T04:22:20.140Z"},"operator":{"id":"6d5f5f0a-afef-4160-b9bc-5652c3304aff","name":"Ukrainian Armed Forces","slug":"ukrainian-armed-forces","description":"The Armed Forces of Ukraine (Zbrojni syly Ukrayiny) are the military forces of Ukraine, established upon independence in 1991. 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