Overview

• Horstmann says Stark can deliver thousands of fully certified Virtus systems within a year, with an ambition to reach tens of thousands, and can train thousands of soldiers.
• The Virtus loitering munition is in use in Ukraine and is undergoing trials with the German Bundeswehr.
• Stark reports investment in new warheads and targets a fully certified European loitering munition on the market by 2027.
• All systems are integrated via the Minerva AI mission-management platform, with the company also demonstrating its Vanta uncrewed boats at NATO’s Repmus exercise in Portugal.
• Backers include Project A and the NATO Innovation Fund, which praises Stark’s roughly 250-person team for developing solutions it says strengthen alliance security.