Change in the armaments industry-military transformation: How to turn drone & KI Europe's defense

Europe is located in 2025 on a decisive scabbard of its security and defense policy. Three mighty geopolitical vectors converge and force the European Union and NATO into a radical transformation: the growing uncertainty about the reliability of the transatlantic security guarantees, the persistent and complex aggression in Russia as well as the systemic and technological challenge by China. These developments mark a fundamental paradigm shift that goes far beyond the mere increase of defense households and requires profound adaptation of strategic, military and industrial capacities.

 

This analysis illuminates how Europe tries to close capacity gaps in critical areas such as education, air transport and rocket defense, while NATO at the same time focuses on the collective defense and the EU underpinning its ambitions as an independent actor in defense policy through new instruments such as the European Defense Fund (EDF). Based on the case study in Germany, the challenges of the implementation of political confessions, such as the "turnaround", is shown in concrete military strips-from structural deficits in personnel and material to bureaucratic obstacles and the stuttering of large-French major projects.

 

For the European defense industry, this mixture opens up unprecedented opportunities, but also considerable risks. The demand is moving towards networked "Systems" solutions, with technological sovereignty, resilient supply chains and the ability to integrate software, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems to be decisive. This report provides strategic recommendations for political decision -makers and industry in order to successfully master the transition from reactive crisis coping for a proactive design of a new European security architecture and to set the course for the coming decades.

 

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