MGI Engineering to unveil TigerShark, a new long-range autonomous strike drone that delivers cruise missile-level performance at a fraction of the cost of conventional equivalent systems. Designed and built in the UK, TigerShark will be available to aligned partners from October 2025.

Capable of carrying a 300kg modular payload over 750km at subsonic speeds of 750km/h, TigerShark is optimised for deep-strike missions against defended, high-value targets. With enhanced autonomy provided by Auterion’s systems, it operates in GPS-denied and communications-contested environments, using inertial and terrain-mapping navigation with onboard edge computing to ensure reliable guidance and terminal accuracy.

The system is ground-launched via RATO or vehicle platforms and engineered for salvo firing, enabling multiple TigerSharks to be deployed simultaneously to overwhelm air defence systems. Its open architecture design supports rapid in-service upgrades and a wide range of payload options, from high-explosive warheads to electronic warfare and decoy packages.

TigerShark addresses a growing need among allied nations for affordable, scalable long-range strike capabilities in an era of increasingly sophisticated anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environments. By combining payload flexibility, survivability and sovereign UK manufacture, it offers a credible alternative to traditional cruise missile systems.

Following the launch of the SkyShark tactical drone in July 2025, MGI is now offering customers a two-tier autonomous strike family. While SkyShark provides a compact, cost-effective platform for short-to-medium range operations with a 20kg payload, TigerShark extends the concept to the strategic deep-strike domain, combining longer range and heavier payloads with the same modular, rapidly upgradable design philosophy.

Mike Gascoyne, chief executive at MGI Engineering, said: “SkyShark showed how a sovereign, affordable drone could deliver precision strike at scale. With TigerShark, we’ve taken that same design philosophy into the long-range domain. It combines 750km reach, a 300kg payload,using Auterion’s fully autonomous control and navigation guidance system in contested environments, giving commanders the kind of strategic strike option that was previously out of reach for many nations.”

TigerShark will make its public debut at DSEI 2025, ExCeL London, 9–12 September, where the MGI team will brief defence stakeholders on its technical performance, manufacturing roadmap and export availability.