Germany funds 50,000 strike drones for Ukraine, source says
- Germany is funding 50,000 Shrike attack drones for Ukraine in a roughly €90 million deal — one of the biggest Western drone purchases yet.
- The Shrike FPV drones use Auterion software to autonomously track and hit moving targets, and have caught the Pentagon’s attention in recent competitions.
- The order is part of a much larger wave of Western drone support (Auterion says ~100,000 drones this year), alongside UK and US multi‑ten‑thousand drone commitments.