Product profile
STARK Minerva
Minerva is STARK’s AI command-and-control software for coordinating unmanned systems across strike, ISR and maritime missions. It integrates with Virtus, G...
Facts
- Company
- STARK
- Product type
- mission_software
- Status
- active
- Website
- https://stark-defence.com/
About STARK Minerva
Minerva coordinates unmanned aircraft and vessels through shared mission planning, target information and system status. The software connects reconnaissance platforms with strike systems and supports human-supervised groups operating across land, air and sea.
STARK integrates Minerva with Virtus, Gambit, Cascade and Vanta and with external reconnaissance and battle-management systems. The platform has supported Bundeswehr swarm and reconnaissance-strike exercises and NATO maritime trials. Mission software manages task allocation, route coordination and transfer of detections between connected assets.
Market context
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Summary
Type: C2 software
Core: Multi-domain control
Function: Mission orchestration
Audience: Defence operators
Specifications
- deployment_context
- Low-connectivity, GNSS-denied and contested operating environments
- mission_profile
- Swarm operation, recce-strike coordination, ISR and maritime group operations
- software_role
- AI command-and-control software for STARK unmanned systems
- supported_platforms
- Virtus, Gambit, Cascade and Vanta family systems
- system_integration
- Designed to integrate with reconnaissance drones and conventional maritime battle-management platforms
Operations
- Environment
- multi_domain_battlefield, contested_electromagnetic_environment
- Primary user
- military_operator
- Role
- mission_command, swarm_coordination, recce_strike
- Mobility class
- software
- Product detail
- software_platform, 19fd4f720c2abdb77640fdd4442ead4ddc019735307140542d12be143ee06318, STARK Defence media library, https://stark-defence.com/en/media, https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/stark-official-media-2026-06-23/minerva-1.jpg, products/stark-official-media-2026-06-23/minerva-1.jpg, clean_official_product_media, other, Mission C2 Software, mission_c2_software, mission_operating_system, 2026-06-23T18:32:00.313Z
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- STARK raises EUR 500M at about EUR 3.5B valuation — 2026-06-23
- STARK demonstrates Virtus and Minerva drone-swarm integration in Bundeswehr exercise — 2026-04-29
- STARK and INLEAP Photonics partner on laser-based C-UAS — 2026-04-23
- STARK and Six Robotics partner on recce-strike capability — 2026-03-12
- STARK to deliver Virtus loitering munition system to the Bundeswehr — 2026-02-26
- STARK opens Ukraine R&D hub and Greece office — 2026-02-13
- STARK wins first major international contract with a NATO member — 2026-02-04
- STARK expands to the Nordics with Stockholm presence — 2026-01-28