Alpine Eagle GmbH is a Munich-based defense-tech company founded in 2023, developing Sentinel: an airborne, AI-powered air-to-air counter-drone system. Sentinel integrates multi-sensor detection, fire control, and strike capabilities into a single networked platform, targeting threats across the full threat spectrum - from hobbyist UAVs to loitering munitions such as Shahed-series drones.
The system's architecture centers on a hardware-agnostic operating system designed for deployment across manned and unmanned host platforms without requiring platform-specific re-engineering. Detection and tracking rely on a fusion pipeline combining machine learning, computer vision, and multi-sensor sensing technologies. The hardware-agnostic approach shifts integration complexity to the software layer, enabling broader platform compatibility as the threat environment evolves.
Sentinel has moved beyond lab and simulation into live operational environments: the system is undergoing active testing on the front lines in Ukraine and has seen early adoption by the German Bundeswehr. Alpine Eagle reached seven-figure revenue within its first year of operation and has raised a €10.25 million seed round led by IQ Capital, with production scaling underway to meet demand from government customers.
Engineering work at Alpine Eagle spans the full stack: embedded and airborne systems, real-time sensor fusion, ML model development and deployment under operational constraints, fire control logic, and the hardware-agnostic OS that ties platform integration together. The team draws from aerospace and AI/sensing disciplines, with the current technical focus on scaling a system that has already demonstrated field viability.