Diehl’s IRIS-T Ramp-Up and Europe’s Air-Defence Industrial Reset
From boutique output to scaled-throughput production: the IRIS-T line becomes a test case for Europe’s ability to finance, procure, and sustain integrated air and missile defence at pace.
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Technologies: Command, Control, Communications, Cloud & Edge. A sourced, structured 6-page analysis for European defence and dual-use decision-makers, from the DFM research desk and built on official and primary sources.
About this report
Europe’s air-defence shortfall is being defined less by concepts than by the mechanics of production and funding.
For years, ground-based systems were financed and procured as supporting assets, with limited peacetime demand and slow replacement cycles; since 2022, Ukraine has turned interceptor expenditure into a sustained consumption pattern while European states simultaneously face the task of rebuilding depleted stocks.
Key questions this report answers
- How has Ukraine's sustained interceptor expenditure since 2022 turned ground-based air defence from a supporting asset into a continuous consumption pattern?
- What production and funding mechanics, rather than concepts, are now defining Europe's air-defence shortfall?
- How does Diehl's IRIS-T ramp-up illustrate the challenge of simultaneously rebuilding depleted European stocks and meeting new demand?
- What does the shift away from slow peacetime replacement cycles imply for financing and procuring interceptor production capacity?
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