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SKYRAPTOR – Mass-affordable, cost-efficient drone-based loitering munition & Small UCAS weapon systems

SKYRAPTOR will deliver an EU-coordinated, industry-scale Programmeto design, prototype and validate
cost-effective, mass-producible loitering munitions and small UCAS to address urgent capability shortfalls

SKYRAPTOR will target soft and armouredthreats within three ranges from 5–10–50–200 km, while combining
mature airframes, advanced sensor & munition into modular platforms engineered for rapid manufacture,
sustainment and battlefield survivability. It will also include heterogeneous swarms under a unified Ground Station,
jam-resistant communications, high levels of autonomy, EW-contested and SLAM/GNSS-denied environments.

SKYRAPTOR PROJECT

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Project Objective

SKYRAPTOR will target soft and armoured threats within three ranges from 5–10–50–200 km, while combining mature airframes, advanced sensor & munition into modular platforms engineered for rapid manufacture, sustainment and battlefield survivability. It will also include heterogeneous swarms under a unified Ground Station, jam-resistant communications, high levels of autonomy, EW-contested and SLAM/GNSS-denied environments.

GDTech's Contribution

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of loitering munitions
  • 0D/1D system and 6-dof modeling for use in a simulator

Co-Funded by The European UnionHeading

Project Period

2026 – 2028

Total Budget

€12.731M

Total funding of Europe

9 799 999,5€

Funding of Belgian Defence

250 000€

With the support of EU and Belgium