Helsing presents the AI platform Clarity for military analysis.

Arms industry Helsing Presents Military AI Platform

2026-11-13 Source: dpa | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

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The Munich-based defence company Helsing has presented a military AI platform for threat analysis and defence planning.

European alternative to Palantir: Helsing presents its new military AI platform Clarity.(Source: Helsing) — European alternative to Palantir: Helsing presents its new military AI platform Clarity.
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The Clarity system analyses large volumes of data and identifies military forces, facilities and positions within it, Helsing announced in Berlin. The information would also be processed for engaging targets with the respectively suitable weapons system.

“All armed forces need a capability for military intelligence gathering and analysis that keeps pace with operational developments. Autonomous systems play an increasingly important role in this,” said Gundbert Scherf, co-CEO and co-founder of Helsing.

What is decisive is to combat identified targets with the appropriate military means. “Such a critical capability must be sovereign. With Clarity, European armed forces get software that is developed in Europe, runs on their own infrastructure, and remains under their control,” Scherf said.

Clarity is a platform for military intelligence analysis designed from the ground up for the use of AI agents, said Helsing’s chief technology officer, Robert Fink, who helped build up the U.S. competitor Palantir.

Concerns about Palantir systems from the USA

Helsing would enter into competition with companies like Palantir with such a system. Their Maven Smart System promises similar advantages for armed forces and was also procured by NATO last year.

However, the use of Palantir programs by German security authorities is politically controversial. Most recently, it was primarily fear of technological dependence on the USA under President Donald Trump that led to calls to forgo software from the United States.

Federal states such as Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia, whose police forces work with Palantir programs, therefore spoke out in the longer term in favor of seeking European alternatives. The company itself emphasises that these are “powerful, secure and sovereign” platforms.

Third parties—including Palantir—could neither access a given customer’s data without that customer’s instructions nor block that customer’s access to locally operated instances of Palantir software, the company said in a statement. If sovereignty debates delayed the integration of proven capabilities, “Europe could be inadequately prepared for current threats.”

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