{"id":17321,"date":"2026-06-22T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/?p=17321"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:05:10","slug":"schaeffler-and-delair-join-forces-to-accelerate-drone-production-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/schaeffler-and-delair-join-forces-to-accelerate-drone-production-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Schaeffler and Delair join forces to accelerate drone production in France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Schaeffler and Delair, a leading French developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have entered into a new strategic cooperation aiming to support the industrial ramp-up of Delair\u2019s drone production and strengthen Europe\u2019s sovereign unmanned aerial systems capabilities, by launching a new production line for drones and interceptors that will be able to deliver 100 units per day by November 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new production line will allow to manufacture the Damocl\u00e8s drone, which is already qualified by French DGA and equips the French Army, as well as the newly announced Aspik Interceptor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The production line, located in France, will give Delair the means to propose competitive products at large scale. The parties intend to develop a durable industrial partnership supporting the production of multi-rotor drones and related subsystems, with the shared objective of strengthening Europe\u2019s defense industrial base and accelerating the availability of scalable, high-performance unmanned aerial systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSchaeffler brings proven industrial capabilities that are highly relevant to the drone sector,\u201d said R\u00e9my Triouleyre, Regional CEO Europe of Schaeffler. \u201cWe see strong potential in supporting Delair\u2019s growth through serial assembly, production scaling and component supply, while contributing to the development of resilient European defense-industrial capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis cooperation with Schaeffler marks an important step in Delair\u2019s industrial and European development,\u201d said Bastien Mancini, CEO of Delair. \u201cBy combining Delair\u2019s UAS know-how with Schaeffler\u2019s manufacturing excellence and industrial scale, we are aiming to strengthen our production capability and accelerate delivery of advanced drone systems to our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schaeffler and Delair, a leading French developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have entered into a new strategic cooperation aiming to support the industrial ramp-up of Delair\u2019s drone production and strengthen Europe\u2019s sovereign unmanned aerial systems capabilities, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,54,1133,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17324,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions\/17324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}