Alpine Eagle provides funding from European anti -technology supporters amid increasing threats
The war in Ukraine brought drones to the forefront of modern war, creating an increase in demand for anti -party systems.
However, the old solutions to counter drones, such as ground defense systems and Internet war, often come at a huge price. To start German operation Alpine Mountain EagleThese solutions shorten: When drones from the width of the first person from the first person (FPV) have the ability to destroy tanks worth millions of dollars, effective answers are needed.
“We use inexpensive and thorny systems to prove symmetry against the numerical feature of the cheap strike drones,” Dutch businessman Jean-Hindrik Powls told Techcrunch. Munich -based Alpine Eagle, which was developed in 2023, developed Sentinel, a mixture of programs and devices that focus on cost efficiency.
Unlike the competitive ground solutions, such as Anti -warrior towerSentinel is mobile, with normative sensors that are not disabled by terrain and other obstacles, while avoiding becoming a fixed goal.
Her mother, who develops, but is not intended to underestimate, bears Kamikaz’s objections that also help her make more than discovering or disturbing threats: they can either pick up things with networks or fully destroy drones.
While potential applications are in law enforcement and other sectors, the current geopolitical climate has prompted the demand for this technology primarily in the army. The Munich -based emerging company secured the German army as its launch customer, as well as other government agencies, and said it had achieved revenues from seven numbers in the first 12 months of operation.
This helped to close a round of the A 10.25 million euros series (about 10.96 million dollars) led by British Deep Tech Vc The capital of intelligence. The new financing will help start its current team from machine learning practitioners and aviation engineers, with new recruits through products, engineering, business development and sales of up to 40.
The fact that the tour, led by a British VC company, is not a coincidence, as the startup will get the United Kingdom as a major market in its expansion. This is also because its market exceeds the battlefields, with Recent events Also highlighting the need to protect the broader military bases and infrastructure.
However, there is no doubt VC interest in the sectorEspecially in countries that feel more threat.
In addition to the returns of general investors at General Catalyst and HCVC, the maximum table now includes money from Estonia, Germany and Poland. We were looking for a consortium of European investors who share the urgency of construction [a] Poilez said the ecosystem of European defense technology is located in the main countries.
Despite this sense of urgency, Boeles did not want to rush to enter Sentinel to Ukraine. “Our approach there was to make sure that we first have a mature system to connect to them so that we do not waste their time in something that does not work yet. We have seen many startups that do so, and we felt that we must go there as soon as the system actually does what it is supposed to do.”
After verifying the health of his regime with the German army, it is now testing his regime in Ukraine and speaking with various brigades that helped determine the use of the confrontation line. one Fiberial fiber drones; Using cables instead of radio frequency makes them more difficult to discover them or jam.
Done -made drones against wireless frequencies can be a challenge even for EPIRUU, which is the American Defense Company in the founding of Joe Lonsdale, which has just raised Series of $ 250 million dAnd its pioneering product, Leonidas, performs high -power microwave settings.
In contrast, the various alpine eagle’s Airborne Systems, including radar panels for low -drone drones that often escape from the ground systems.
Justice goes in both directions, though. This is one of the aspects in which Alpine Eagle AI is used, with data processing on board the same devices for mobility purposes, as well as collecting data to re -train his algorithms “to obtain more adaptive tactics based on what they were already actually considered.”
One of the main tactical aspects of Sentinel is the experience, which is also a selling point The latest drone models From the German Defense Technology Company Helsing. Its application is followed to counter drone strategies as the same logic to reduce costs and losses, with increasingly unconventional war.
“We have realized that all Western powers have a problem that there is not enough soldiers, so we try to build a system where many drones can be operated by one operator using high automation levels and really promoting the soldier to a mission manager instead of a pilot.”
