Defending freedom

Building resilience for a safer tomorrow

The European defence technological and industrial base helps safeguard our freedom by providing European armed forces with the equipment and technologies they need to protect our countries from military aggression. By developing, producing and supporting state-of-the-art defence capabilities, our industry ensures that our countries can maintain their freedom and sovereignty, and our citizens can live without the fear of foreign aggression. Russia’s war of aggression has shown that this is more relevant than ever.

Defence

The defence industry develops, produces and services a wide range of military products such as weapons, aircraft, vehicles, vessels, and electronic systems. It features complex supply chains, including original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that design and produce the final products, and a network of suppliers providing essential sub-systems, components and materials that go into final products

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