Long-range kamikaze drones: the four suppliers of the “Artemis Project” for the US Army have been selected.

17 March 20252 months babelfish

As part of the US Army's so-called Project Artemis for the introduction of military drones, four suppliers of long-range disposable attack drones have been selected for the next phase.

This was announced in a press release dated March 14, 2025 by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) , which operates within the US Department of Defense. The finalists include the two US companies Dragoon and AeroVironment, as well as the two US software specialists Auterion and Swan, each of which will participate in the competition with a Ukrainian drone platform.

According to the DUI, the goal of the project, which began at the end of 2024, is ideally to test commercially available long-range disposable attack drones, which can be used effectively even under the influence of massive electronic jamming and in an environment with suppressed satellite navigation (GNSS). The requirement to take into consideration is that the price of the system must be kept low enough to make a mass deployment aimed at saturating enemy defense economically sustainable . A very interesting passage, which makes us understand its future use.

Artemis will have to offer expendable long-range drones

The four selected companies were chosen from a total of 165 applications submitted over the last four months. To this end, DUI has organized numerous workshops and comparison flights. The dynamics of the project indicate that the next stage for reaching the final state of the prototype and the related flight verification by the finalists will have to be presented by the end of May. Completion of prototype testing is scheduled for June 30, 2025 .

According to the project description, the system developed as part of Artemis will be able to be launched from the ground and hit targets within a radius of 50 to 300 km and ideally even further.

The platform should be affordable, simple and quick to build and easy to modify or modernize, therefore have an effective industrialization process. Furthermore, the payload should be modular and adaptable depending on the objective. According to the project description, particular attention is paid to the aforementioned resistance to electronic interference, in response to what happened in Ukraine, where electronic warfare has proven, at times, very effective against drones.

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