Supacat
Devon specialist military vehicle maker; manufacturing partner for ARX Robotics' UK GEREON UGV production line.
Supacat, the Devon vehicle maker, became Britain's manufacturing base for ARX Robotics' GEREON ground robot in April 2026, and on 11 August eight Supacat-built units completed a six-day US Army trial at Fort Irwin.
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Will the ARX-Supacat Jackal MoU become a UK Ministry of Defence programme of record?
Timeline for Supacat
Mentioned in: GEREON ran six days in the Mojave
Autonomous Systems: Land & SeaMentioned in: ARX and Roboneers build a cross-border robot venture
Autonomous Systems: Land & SeaMentioned in: Britain stands up its first robot fleet
Autonomous Systems: Land & SeaSigned teaming agreement with ARX Robotics on 28 April for optionally crewed Jackal manufacturing in UK
Autonomous Systems: Land & Sea: Ukraine pulls in Europe's robot supplyAnnounced strategic manufacturing and deployment partnership with ARX Robotics UK on 28 April 2026
Autonomous Systems: Land & Sea: ARX builds British Army robot lineBackground
Supacat is a British specialist vehicle manufacturer based in Devon, best known for the Jackal, a high-mobility all-terrain patrol vehicle used by UK and allied special forces. The company has extended that vehicle-engineering base into autonomous systems, teaming with Germany's ARX Robotics to develop an optionally crewed version of the Jackal and to manufacture ARX's GEREON uncrewed ground vehicle in the UK.
The pairing combines ARX's autonomy software with Supacat's established British Army customer relationships, supply chain and maintenance network, giving a German entrant a route to scale it could not build alone. For Supacat, it is a move from a single flagship platform into a broader family of crewed and uncrewed variants built from the same Devon production base.
The arrangement matters beyond the immediate contract because it anchors ground-robot manufacturing capacity inside Britain rather than importing it, satisfying Ministry of Defence sovereign-capability preferences that increasingly shape how it buys uncrewed systems; an August 2026 six-day US Army trial of Supacat-built GEREON units gave that sovereign-capability bet its first sustained field test.
Supacat anchors Britain's GEREON production
Supacat became the manufacturing base for ARX Robotics' GEREON ground robot after Task Force RAPSTONE awarded ARX a British Army contract in April 2026, backing a £45 million German investment in a UK line with capacity for up to 1,800 units a year. The contract followed Ukraine's demand signal: ARX said on 6 May it would expand its fleet roughly fivefold, and Supacat separately signed a memorandum of understanding with ARX to develop an optionally crewed Jackal.
On 11 August, eight GEREON units built through the Supacat partnership completed six days of trials alongside British troops at Fort Irwin, the clearest field evidence yet that the UK line delivers combat-ready vehicles.
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