EUR: How Europe’s responding to Russian drone threats
Europe has been slow to adapt to the Russian drone threat, but is starting to test technologies used in Ukraine — and building drone-detection infrastructure.
Neodymium magnets for drone motors, germanium for night vision and gallium for GPU chips are vital for the military technologies Europe needs—and China controls them.
Tanks have proven vulnerable to drones on the Ukrainian battlefield, but the EU is still confident in their need for one. Here’s how the bloc is pressing ahead with its ambitions to design a next-generation battle tank.
Defense tech startups in the EU and Ukraine will be able to get equity investments of up to €30 million each, with larger firms invited to co-invest, under plans to be spelled out on Wednesday.
