The European Defence Agency’s Sentinel Strike Challenge moves to live field testing in Portugal this autumn, as five companies advance to compete for €1.8 million in prizes – and generate the operational evidence that EU defence ministries will use to shape future loitering munition procurement. The European Defence Agency has named five finalists for its Sentinel Strike Challenge, a competition testing loitering munition systems under realistic operational conditions as part of the EU OPEX26 experimental campaign. Helsing of Germany, Destinus of the Netherlands, C-Astral of Slovenia, UAVision of Portugal and Spirit Aeronautical Systems of Greece have been selected from more…

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