Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production

"The cost asymmetry that defines modern drone warfare is by now well documented. In April 2024, Iran launched roughly 300 drones and missiles at Israel. Defenders intercepted most of them, at an estimated cost of more than $1.5 billion. The attacking drones cost a fraction of that to produce."

"The same dynamic plays out on a daily basis in Ukraine, where cheap first-person-view drones overwhelm defences that were never designed to handle volume. The strategic implication is straightforward: whoever can field counter-drone systems that are cheap enough to shoot down cheap drones has a meaningful advantage."

"Alpine Eagle was founded in 2023 by Jan-Hendrik Boelens, a Dutch aerospace engineer whose CV includes a decade at Airbus Helicopters, where he served as chief engineer on transnational helicopter development programmes, followed by the CTO role at electric air taxi startup Volocopter and then CTO at autonomous UAV company Quantum Systems."

Alpine Eagle, a Munich-based defense startup founded in 2023, is scaling production of its Sentinel counter-UAS system to address the cost imbalance in modern drone warfare. The company plans to establish a 2,000-square-metre production facility near Munich and partner with Dutch UAV manufacturer DeltaQuad to expand the platform using European supply chain capacity. Sentinel is an airborne counter-drone system, distinguishing it from ground-based competitors. The system has been tested in Ukraine and with US and UK forces. Founded by Jan-Hendrik Boelens, an aerospace engineer with experience at Airbus Helicopters, Volocopter, and Quantum Systems, and co-founder Timo Breuer from Microsoft Research and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Alpine Eagle addresses the strategic advantage of fielding cost-effective counter-drone systems capable of defeating inexpensive first-person-view drones.

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