Shield AI and Destinus Partner to Integrate Hivemind Across Platforms in Support of European Defence
- Shield AI and Destinus have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Hivemind, Shield AI’s mission autonomy software, across Destinus’ aerial platforms. Together, the companies are creating the first scalable, cross-platform autonomy architecture jointly developed by next-generation defence leaders in Europe and the United States.
By combining Shield AI’s battle-proven autonomy with Destinus’ industrial-scale European manufacturing, this partnership accelerates the delivery of AI-enabled unmanned systems to Ukraine and strengthens Europe’s overall defence resilience.
Through this partnership, Hivemind will be integrated onto Destinus’ Ruta and Hornet unmanned aerial systems. Together with Shield AI’s V-BAT, these platforms will share information, coordinate behaviors, and adapt in real time with in-flight target updates — creating a tightly integrated and highly effective reconnaissance-strike capability. Joint flight demonstrations are planned for 2026 to showcase operational interoperability across systems from both companies.
“For Europe to achieve true technological sovereignty, we must unite world-class AI autonomy with industrial scale,” said Mikhail Kokorich, CEO of Destinus. “This partnership strengthens that effort by pairing Destinus’ platforms and AI avionics with Shield AI’s combat-proven mission autonomy. With Destinus platforms, we are engineering the backbone of a distributed, intelligent, and resilient autonomous strike architecture for Europe and for Ukraine.”
Hivemind is a highly modular, platform-agnostic autonomy software that enables heterogeneous teaming across systems, allowing reconnaissance and strike assets to operate as an intelligent team, thereby closing the reconnaissance-strike loop with speed and precision. Designed to ensure traceability, reliability and governability, Hivemind operates within clear command frameworks and augments human decision-makers, rather than replacing them.
