Europe’s defence-AI champion Helsing is using Rakuten to break into Japan’s arms market

Japan’s army is field-testing Helsing’s HX-2 strike drone, with Rakuten smoothing the German AI defence startup’s path into a market that has only just opened to foreign weapons.

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