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EU-wide regulations such as the Counter-Drone Action Plan and the CER Directive require member states to identify critical infrastructure and outline how to protect it from drone and other threats.
Drones with unexploded ordnance discovered at the Leipzig airport this month highlight the need for better coordination and clearer responsibility when countering these dangers. The companies that can provide defense tech face regulatory hurdles, which slow down production, procurement and testing.
Unlike certain US cybersecurity requirements, the EU's NIS2 Directive doesn't mandate network segmentation or isolation for critical infrastructure. That means a cyberattack could spread unchecked through a connected system rather than being contained.
Ukraine's Airlogix and Finland's Innokas signed a letter of intent this week to jointly manufacture unmanned systems in Finland, pending an intergovernmental supply agreement. Separately, Ukraine's Tencore and Finland's Insta agreed to co-produce 320 TerMIT 2.0 ground systems for Ukraine's military.
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Jaak Tarien started a new position as an advisor for the Estonian Defense Forces.
Mariia Cherpak has joined THYRA, a German defense tech company working on C-UAS platforms.
Sky Spy, a defense tech startup developing RF intelligence systems, is looking for an FPGA engineer, a Python software engineer, and a business development manager to expand its European team.
Quantum Frontline Industries, a German-Ukrainian joint venture, is hiring a production department manager.
Gabriel Systems is an early-stage British defense tech startup raising £200,000 (€234,000) to mature a multi-role UAS platform, Executor-X.
Executor-X is a Group 2 X-wing tailsitter that combines strike & ISR capabilities in a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) airframe, which can carry heavier payloads farther than multi-copters and without the operational overhead of launch-assisted fixed-wing systems.
The system collapses medium-range kill-chains into one affordable platform for large-scale deployment and equips even non-specialist infantry with organic armed overwatch.
Founders with their products. Photo by the developer.
E-X is at TRL-5, and the company is raising a bridge round with strategic angels (SEIS-approved) before a full seed raise in 2027. The funds will go into MVP builds for demos with armed forces units in the UK and Ukraine.
Contact [email protected] for more details.
For the first time, Sweden has ordered strike drones for its armed forces, awarding the contract to the Danish company Nordic Wing. The Astero ISR reconnaissance drone and Raptor 2 strike drone will operate together via shared software.
German defense tech company STARK has delivered the first Seetaube unmanned surface vessel to the German armed forces for testing. Built on the Vanta platform, it is designed for reconnaissance and other maritime missions.
Ukrainian drone and missile manufacturer Fire Point has obtained the necessary permits to build a solid rocket fuel production plant in Denmark. The project will be the first Ukrainian chemical defense facility in a NATO member.
The EU has approved a plan to deploy a satellite constellation costing more than €15.6 billion. The plan includes 348 satellites, with an initial first launch expected in 2029. Spanish company HispaSat will be the main contractor for the system’s ground segment.
