Greece’s ALTUS LSA signs a memorandum with Romania’s CARFIL (ROMARM) on interceptor-drone munitions and joint production in Romania

The Greek company ALTUS LSA, based in Chania, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Romania’s S CARFIL SA, a subsidiary of the state defence group C.N. ROMARM S.A., as the company announced on LinkedIn on Monday, October 19. ALTUS describes the agreement as an important step in strengthening defence-industrial cooperation between Greece and Romania.

The partnership brings together ALTUS LSA’s expertise in advanced unmanned platforms and interception systems with CARFIL’s industrial capabilities and experience in munitions manufacturing. The memorandum sets a framework for cooperation in three areas: the supply of munitions for ALTUS’s interception systems, possible technology transfer, and the joint industrial development of heavy-payload and interception platforms in Romania. It also covers testing and evaluation activities.

“Together we aim to promote defence innovation, strengthen European industrial capabilities and explore new opportunities in allied and international markets,” the Greek company said.

A framework, not a contract

This is a memorandum of understanding, that is, a framework for cooperation and not a procurement contract. The implementation of each strand, from munitions to the joint production of platforms in Romania, will go through separate contracts between the two companies.

Demand for counter-drone solutions

The agreement comes at a time of rising demand for counter-drone solutions in Romania, where last weekend Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the country’s territorial waters near Sulina. In recent weeks ALTUS LSA presented its KMB Hunter interceptor drone and the KERVEROS multicopter at the EUDIS Defence Hackathon 2026 in Nicosia, where its team also met the Greek ambassador to Cyprus, Konstantinos Kollias. It has also announced a strategic cooperation with the US company Shield AI to combine the KMB Hunter and the M3NTOR command-and-control system with the V-BAT and the Hivemind autonomy platform.

KERVEROS, based on the ATLAS 8, has already carried out successful firing tests in Crete with MBDA’s AKERON MP anti-tank missile, and ALTUS took part together with SAS Technology in the European Defence Agency’s Sentinel Strike Challenge. Based in Chania, with a corporate office in Pallini, ALTUS works in unmanned aircraft, target drones, operator training and surveillance systems.