Arquimea
Madrid-based Spanish company in space, Science, aeronautics and defence, maker of Q-Slam loitering munitions.
Arquimea flew its Q-Slam 40 loitering munition off a Spanish Navy robot boat during the REPMUS26 exercise in Portugal, reported on 21 September 2026, streaming live video to the navy's command systems. Infodefensa calls it The Firm's first launch from a naval drone.
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Can Arquimea's Q-Slam 40 strike from a robot boat, not just launch?
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Launched Q-Slam 40 from a naval USV
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Arquimea is a Madrid-based company working in space, Science, aeronautics and defence. Its defence line centres on the Q-Slam family of loitering munitions. The Q-Slam 40, first shown as the QLM-40 at FEINDEF 2021, is an electrically powered rotary-wing munition with a stated endurance of 25 minutes and a range of 25km. The fixed-wing Q-Slam 100 followed at FEINDEF 2025, with over 120 minutes of endurance and 60km of range. On 14 May 2025 Airbus Helicopters Spain and Arquimea agreed to integrate the Q-Slam 40 on the NH90 helicopter.
During REPMUS26, held on Portugal's Tróia Peninsula between 31 August and 25 September 2026, a Q-Slam 40 lifted off from a Spanish Navy robot boat at SEA, and its live video fed into the navy's command systems. Neither source dates the launch within the exercise.
Sources report a launch and a video feed, not a strike. The trial adds a naval launch platform to a munition already planned for helicopters, and puts Arquimea on the same small robot hulls that other programmes are arming with missiles.
