Building in defence, since 2025
Europe is rearming.
From next-generation sensors and uncrewed systems to command networks, Daft Robot Labs is spearheading the future of the defence and security industry.
5.0%
Of GDP. NATO target for 2035.
NATO, The Hague, June 2025
SEK 26.6bn
Added to Swedish defence for 2026. Up 18 percent.
Government of Sweden, September 2025
USD 8.7bn
Raised by European defence startups in 2025, a record.
Resilience Media, 2025
581 000
People in European defence, 2023.
European Defence Agency
Live
Defence spending runs from 1.9 to 4.2 percent of GDP around the Baltic. Sweden has published a path to 3.5 by 2030.
The full series, and the targets to 2030World Bank open data
The build
The industrial base, broken into our areas of focus
- 01Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissanceDetection, tracking, fusion
- 02Uncrewed systemsAir, ground, counter-drone
- 03Air systemsAvionics, mission software
- 04Protected mobilityVehicles, active protection
- 05Dismounted close combatOptics, power, carried load
- 06Command and controlResilient links, decision tools
- 07Readiness and peopleVetting, training, throughput
The EU has opened EUR 150 billion of lending for common procurement. Sixty-one percent of European defence firms cannot fill their cyber-physical roles.
How we work
Defence spending data
NATO sets the targets and the EU provides the lending, but national budgets decide what actually gets built.
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