{"id":754655,"date":"2026-02-10T09:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/754655\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:34:19","slug":"germany-plans-e536-million-strike-drone-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/754655\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany plans \u20ac536 million strike drone order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Germany plans to order strike drones worth about 536 million euros from domestic defense startups Helsing and Stark Defence as part of a broader military modernization effort. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"533\">The purchase includes loitering munitions, drones designed to remain airborne over target areas before striking. The deal forms part of a wider defense framework agreement valued at around 4.3 billion euros, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"535\" data-end=\"715\">The contracts are expected to receive approval from the German parliament\u2019s budget committee. The move is part of Germany\u2019s rearmament drive following Russia\u2019s war against <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/russian-strike-hits-energy-site-in-ukraines-odesa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"823\">The drones are expected to initially support Germany\u2019s 45th Tank Brigade, currently deployed in Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"945\">The agreements are expected to run for seven years, with the first batch of drones scheduled for delivery by early 2027.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/aysel-mammadzada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Aysel Mammadzada<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany plans to order strike drones worth about 536 million euros from domestic defense startups Helsing and Stark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[31239,2000,299,1824,78233,222237,657],"class_list":["post-754655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-drone","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-helsing","tag-stark-defence","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116045654435546016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754655","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=754655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}