Schiebel (Detection)
Mine detection equipment for defence and humanitarian demining — the group's original business line since 1951.
Vitality Radar
Pillar Analysis
Strategic Assessment
Strategic Vector
Schiebel is positioned as a specialized dual-use defense and humanitarian mine-detection and UAS vendor, anchored by long-running NATO and European contracts and quality certifications in aviation and defense. Its strategic direction emphasizes incremental product evolution in mine detection and leveraging certification-driven trust to sustain government and institutional customers.
Efficiency Ratio
Given its mid-size team, sustained long-term contracts, and certification-heavy operating model, Schiebel appears to convert engineering and compliance investments into stable contracts efficiently, though public hiring and culture signals are limited.
Evidence Signals
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency extended Schiebel’s mine detector contract and ordered an additional 900 AN-19/2 Mine Detecting Sets under the extended agreement, bringing total deliveries to 1,700 units.
Schiebel delivered 35 units of its ATMID All Terrain Mine Detector to the Ecuadorian Ministry of National Defense, following an order placed in late September and delivered to the Ecuadorian Land Forces in December 2017.
Schiebel presented its new generation hand-held COMID Compact Mine Detector at the DSEI defense and security exhibition in London, targeting humanitarian demining and military customers with enhanced ground and saltwater compensation capabilities.
Schiebel was awarded EN 9100 certification for quality management systems in the aviation, space and defense industry, equivalent to AS9100 in North America and JISQ 9100 in Japan.
Schiebel became the first Unmanned Air System operator in Europe to receive the Light UAS Operator Certificate (LUC) organisational approval for its CAMCOPTER S-100 from Austro Control.
Schiebel was awarded a new remotely piloted aircraft systems contract with the European Maritime Safety Agency, supported by its AS/EN 9100-certified quality management for military, commercial and humanitarian products.
- About
- Mine detection is the founding business of the Schiebel Group and predates its unmanned aircraft line by decades. The company develops, tests and produces mine detection equipment sold both to armed forces and into humanitarian demining, backed by after-sales service and support, and certified to the AS/EN 9100 aerospace quality standard. Group headquarters are in Vienna, with production in Wiener Neustadt and Abu Dhabi.
- Relevancy
- Schiebel's founding business since 1951, making mine detection equipment for armed forces and humanitarian demining. Listed separately from the CAMCOPTER drone line because it is a different product sold to different buyers, though both belong to the same Vienna company.
- Tags
- #minedetection #EOD #countermine #humanitariandemining #AS9100