Rheinmetall’s Strategic Stake in Auterion and the Race for Standardised Military Drone Software

Auterion’s announcement that Rheinmetall has taken a “significant” stake in the company marks an important step in the consolidation of Europe’s defence-tech ecosystem around software-defined unmanned systems. Auterion, a Swiss-American firm specialising in operating systems for aerial, land and naval drones, had already been collaborating with Rheinmet…