Ukrainian drone manufacturer Skyfall shows its Vampire unmanned system at the Dubai Airshow on Nov. 19, 2025. (Daniel Woolfolk / Breaking Defense)
MILAN — The US defense company Auterion has signed onto a new partnership with Ukraine-based drone manufacturer Skyfall to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces with 50,000 FPV drones equipped with autonomy software to strike moving targets, the American company announced today.
The total drone order is more than double Auterion’s prior deployments to Ukraine, which totalled approximately 40,000 units, a company representative told Breaking Defense. The purchase involves Skyfall’s Shrike first-person-view drones, already used in combat across the war-torn country, fitted with Auterion’s Skynode S, which relies on artificial intelligence and computer vision to fly drones through electronically jammed environments.
Auterion said the contract, to be jointly executed by it and Skyfall, was awarded by an undisclosed European NATO nation. Auterion, for its part, would receive $100 million in revenue from the deployment.
Reuters reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed source, that Germany was the undisclosed European funding nation behind the order.
