Delair

Delair is a Toulouse-based French fixed-wing drone company specialising in long-endurance tactical surveillance and, increasingly, loitering-munition systems. Founded in 2011, Delair built its commercial reputation on the UX11 and DT18 fixed-wing platforms used for infrastructure inspection, precision agriculture, and military reconnaissance, before pivoting toward defence applications in response to Ukraine-driven demand.

Delair's primary defence project is the Damocles loitering munition, developed in partnership with KNDS (Krauss-Maffei Wegmann + Nexter). Damocles targets the growing European market for small, tactical loitering munitions following France's April 2026 cancellation of both the Patroller and Eurodrone programmes and redirection of approximately €600 million toward smaller platforms. KNDS's procurement relationships with the French DGA and the German Bundeswehr give Delair a route to two of Europe's largest defence budgets without requiring an Independent prime contractor position.

Delair's significance is its positioning as a commercially viable European mid-tier between large primes and Ukrainian combat-drone exporters — a gap that the EU AGILE programme and the Bundeswehr's multi-company drone awards are designed to address.