Air defence has always been sold as a set: a radar, a command post and a missile from the same maker, priced accordingly. Helsing, the Munich defence-AI company best known for strike drones, wants to break the set up. In Berlin on 26 October it unveiled Contra, which it describes as “an AI-controlled autonomous air defence system designed to protect countries from scaled drone and missile attacks”, alongside two interceptors of its own.
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