Destinus targets 300 missiles per month

This production rate means Destinus is no longer acting like a niche missile startup, it is trying to become a real wartime manufacturer built around throughput, not just clever engineering. At roughly 300 Ruta missiles per month, annualized output reaches about 3,600 units, which is enough to make factory speed and component supply the core advantage. That is a very different game from selling a few bespoke systems to defense ministries.1 2 3

• The shift is recent and concrete. In 2024, Destinus was still primarily a drone company at about $70M in revenue. By October 2025, Ruta missile sales had become a major revenue driver, contributing 30% of 2025 revenue and 80% of projected 2026 revenue.1 2
• The economic logic is volume. Ruta is priced at about $400K, far below a Tomahawk and below comparable European missiles, so the winning workflow is not a small number of exquisite shots. It is giving European buyers a missile they can afford to stock in meaningful quantities.2
• This puts Destinus in the same neoprime lane as Anduril, Shield AI, and Quantum Systems, but with a harder manufacturing challenge. Software and drones can scale fast, but cruise missiles require engines, guidance, explosives, and final assembly lines that can run every month without slipping.2 4 5

Going forward, the company that can turn Europe’s rearmament budgets into steady monthly deliveries will have the edge. If Destinus sustains this ramp, it moves from being a fast growing defense startup into one of the few European suppliers that can help rebuild the continent’s depleted long range strike inventory at industrial scale.2 3