Announces completion of first Resilience Factory (RF-1) in Southern Germany
First of multiple Resilience Factories to be built across Europe
Helsing now one of the largest manufacturers of strike drones globally
London, February 13th, 2025 – Helsing, the leading European defence technology company, today announced that it is producing 6,000 HX-2 strike drones for delivery to Ukraine. This follows a previous order of 4,000 HF-1 strike drones which are currently being delivered to Ukraine, in partnership with Ukrainian industry. The new batch of drones makes Helsing one of the largest strike drone manufacturers globally.
Unveiled in late 2024, HX-2 is an electrically propelled X-wing precision munition with up to 100 km range. Advanced on-board AI enables full resistance to electronic warfare. When operating as part of Helsing’s Altra recce-strike software, multiple HX-2 can assemble into swarms, controlled by single human operators.?HX-2 has been designed to be mass-producible and at significantly lower unit cost than conventional systems, thus filling a growing capability gap in modern land warfare.
In addition, Helsing is announcing the completion of the first Resilience Factory in Southern Germany.
Resilience Factories are Helsing’s high-efficiency production facilities designed to provide nation states with local and sovereign manufacturing capacities. Helsing is set to build Resilience Factories across the European continent, with the ability to scale manufacturing rates to tens of thousands of units in case of a conflict.
The first Resilience Factory (RF-1) is operational in Southern Germany and has an initial monthly production capacity of more than 1,000 HX-2.
Gundbert Scherf, co-founder of Helsing, said: “We are scaling up production of HX-2 in response to additional orders from Ukraine, where precision mass is offsetting a numerical disadvantage in legacy systems on a daily basis. It is clear that NATO has important lessons to learn, and fast. With our Resilience Factories, we are taking a distributed approach towards mass manufacturing these systems across Europe, allowing individual nation states to produce locally and ensure sovereignty of production and supply chain.”
Niklas Köhler, co-founder of Helsing said: “We have assembled Europe’s world-leading manufacturing talent to completely rethink and develop a new generation of mass producible effects. Our Resilience Factories combine software-first design with scalable manufacturing techniques. We solve the hard problems in the software layer, not the electronics. This generates affordable precision mass, deters adversaries, and protects our democracies. HX-2 is just the first of a whole range of products based on this premise.“