Media: German company Helsing will supply Ukraine with 4,000 advanced kamikaze drones called "mini-Taurus"

A number of global media reported yesterday that the USA, the UK and France had finally authorised Ukraine to strike military facilities on Russian territory with long-range ATACMS, SCALP and Storm Shadow missiles.

In turn, Germany has so far stubbornly refused to provide Ukraine with its own Taurus missiles. But today it became known that in the near future the Germans will start mass deliveries to Ukraine of kamikaze drones, which are called "mini-Taurus".

Here's What We Know

According to the German edition of Bild, Helsing has received an order to supply Ukraine with 4,000 kamikaze drones of an unnamed model. It is mentioned that the drones will be equipped with machine vision and integrated AI, can autonomously attack targets after the operator has marked them, they successfully operate in conditions of exposure to REB and unfavourable weather.

It is separately emphasised that Helsing's drones have a range four times greater than their Ukrainian counterparts, although it is not quite clear which UAVs are being compared, as engineers from Ukraine have developed dozens of drone models. It seems that they are talking about FPVs, as it is mentioned that they will be cheaper to produce than the US Switchblade and Russia's Zalas and Lancets.

Military experts compare the drones from Helsing to Taurus missiles, apparently implying special power and high accuracy.

The delivery of "mini-Taurus" will begin in December in batches of several hundred per month.

Bild mentions that the Ukrainian military has been using experimental drone models in real combat conditions in eastern Ukraine for some time now and giving opinions on how to improve them.

Notably, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is "very happy that the delivery of these drones equipped with AI technology is already starting" and that Ukraine will be able to use them against important enemy targets.

Source: Bild