{"id":450276,"date":"2025-09-25T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/450276\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:30:23","slug":"germanys-helsing-unveils-europa-combat-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/450276\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Helsing unveils &#8216;Europa&#8217; combat drone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">TUSSENHAUSEN, Germany (Reuters) -German defence startup Helsing unveiled a new autonomous military drone on Thursday, joining a race to build remote-piloted systems that can swarm into battle with other drones or team up with crewed jets to reshape the future of air combat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Unveiling a full-size angular model of the roughly four tonne &#8220;CA-1 Europa&#8221; drone at a factory outside Munich, Helsing said it would stage a first flight in 2027 and become available for military operations within the following four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Tim Hepher, Alexander Huebner, Supantha Mukherjee; Editing by Ros Russell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUSSENHAUSEN, Germany (Reuters) -German defence startup Helsing unveiled a new autonomous military drone on Thursday, joining a race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,78233,151477,151476],"class_list":{"0":"post-450276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-helsing","12":"tag-military-drone","13":"tag-tim-hepher"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115264711905323245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}