Europe's new Iron Dome: UK firm unveils AI-powered missiles to stop mass attacks

Modern warfare has changed. Cheap drone swarms and high-speed saturation strikes threaten to drain conventional military stockpiles in days. Now, German defence technology company Helsing has unveiled Contra, an AI-controlled air-defence system designed to counter large-scale drone and missile attacks. The system fuses radar, electro-optical, infrared and acoustic sensors to detect and coordinate engagements against hundreds or thousands of incoming threats.