Overview

• Helsing revealed a full-size design study at Grob Aircraft’s Tussenhausen site, with Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder attending and offering regional support.
• The company describes the CA-1 as roughly 11 meters long with a 10-meter wingspan and about four tonnes maximum takeoff weight, designed for high subsonic operations.
• Helsing says the platform is intended for reconnaissance, electronic warfare and precision strikes, and can fly solo or in coordinated swarms.
• The jet is to be controlled by Helsing’s Centaur autonomy software, which the company says was previously demonstrated on Saab’s Gripen fighter.
• Development and testing will run at newly acquired Grob Aircraft, with Helsing pitching the mass-producible CA-1 as a European alternative to U.S.-led Collaborative Combat Aircraft concepts.