WB Group Unveils Warmate 30 Kamikaze Drone at MSPO 2026
Polish defense manufacturer WB Group unveiled its new Warmate 30 loitering munition at the MSPO 2026 exhibition in Kielce. Carrying a 30-kilogram warhead, the system is the largest and longest-range addition to the company’s existing Warmate family of kamikaze drones.
According to specifications released alongside the unveiling, Warmate 30 reaches a top speed of roughly 450 km/h with a cruise speed above 150 km/h, a range of approximately 250 kilometers, and loitering endurance exceeding one hour over a target area. The airframe uses a flying-wing configuration with flaperons and a composite structure intended to reduce radar and thermal signature, powered by a Polish-built turbojet engine with rocket-assisted launch.
WB Group’s existing Warmate 5 is a smaller, shorter-range strike system, while the Warmate TL-R variant is built for reconnaissance. Warmate 30 sits above both in the product line, combining a heavier warhead with substantially extended range to address a different requirement segment. Internally, the system is also referred to by the designation “Gladius 2.”
The new munition is designed to operate as part of WB Group’s broader Gladius reconnaissance-strike system. Breaking Defense reported that Warmate 30 was developed in response to a requirement from the Polish Armed Forces and is expected to enter serial production in the near term, indicating the platform has already moved past early development into a stage close to procurement.
WB Group chief executive Piotr Wojciechowski said the Gladius system has drawn interest from NATO allies, while emphasizing that the Polish version will use exclusively domestic components. That distinction points to a differentiated product strategy, with export variants for allied customers potentially diverging from the configuration fielded by Poland’s own armed forces.
Poland has pushed defense spending toward roughly 4 percent of GDP since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, placing it among NATO’s highest spenders as a share of GDP. Rising demand for loitering munitions across the alliance is directly linked to the demonstrated battlefield effectiveness of such systems in Ukraine, and WB Group’s decision to expand the Warmate line reflects lessons drawn from that experience being fed into national industrial capacity.
Earlier Warmate variants gained operational experience through deliveries to Ukraine. WB Group has not stated how directly that battlefield feedback shaped Warmate 30’s design, though the increased warhead weight and extended range are widely read by industry observers as a response to requirements identified in combat use.
No official figures have yet been released on the serial production timeline or the size of the Polish Armed Forces’ initial order. Further details are expected in the months following the MSPO unveiling as the program moves toward procurement.
MSPO ranks among Central and Eastern Europe’s largest defense exhibitions and increasingly functions as a venue where Warsaw showcases domestically developed systems rather than only hosting foreign exhibitors. Warmate 30 enters a crowded loitering munition category that includes Russia’s Lancet, Israel’s Harop and a growing number of Chinese and other European designs; with its 30-kilogram warhead and 250-kilometer range, WB Group’s system is positioned at the heavier end of that field, aimed at both tactical and operational-level targets.
Sources
- Breaking Defense — “Poland’s WB Group unveils Warmate 30, latest in drone recon-strike system” (9 Eylül 2026) — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/09/polands-wb-group-unveils-warmate-30-latest-in-drone-recon-strike-system/ — used as a source for this report.
- WB Group (resmi ürün sayfası) — “Warmate Loitering Munitions” (2026) — https://www.wbgroup.pl/en/produkt/warmate-loitering-munnitions/ — used as a source for this report.
