EDF 2025 Budget Allocation: Zero Air Defence, €192 Million for Ground Combat
A document-based analysis of why Air and Missile Defence remains unfunded in EDF 2025 and what Ground Combat’s dominant allocation reveals about European defence-industrial demand.
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About this report
This report examines a specific inconsistency within the current European defence-industrial landscape. The EDF 2025 Work Programme allocates no budget to Air and Missile Defence for the second consecutive year, even though integrated air and missile defence remains a formal capability priority in the EU planning framework and continues to appear in Member State collaborative signalling.
At the same time, Ground Combat receives €192 million and emerges as the single largest category in the 2025 Part II allocation.
Key questions this report answers
- Why does the EDF 2025 Work Programme allocate no budget to Air and Missile Defence for a second consecutive year?
- How does Ground Combat's EUR 192 million allocation emerge as the single largest 2025 Part II category?
- What Ukraine-related FSTP amendments and BraveTech EU signals appear within EDF 2025?
- What does the 2024-2025 AIRDEF gap, 2026 re-entry and two-part budget architecture imply strategically?
Inside this report
- Analytical problem, evidentiary standard, and document set
- The EDF 2025 budget map and the legally relevant “two-part” architecture
- Air and missile defence in 2025: what is documented and what can only be inferre
- Ground combat as the dominant 2025 signal: topic-level interpretation and indust
- Ukraine-related legal and programme signals: FSTP amendments and their linkage t
- BraveTech EU within EDF 2025: institutional design, EDA management, and comparis
- Strategic interpretation: what the 2024–2025 AIRDEF gap, 2026 re-entry, and 2025
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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DFM reports are built from primary and official sources — TED procurement notices, CORDIS and the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, EIB operations, the NATO Innovation Fund portfolio, SIPRI data, official budget documents and company disclosures — read together with the underlying legal texts. Sources are cited in the document; it reflects them as of its publication date (30 March 2026). You receive a 22-page PDF, watermarked to you on every page, delivered on the confirmation page and by e-mail immediately after checkout (personal link valid 72 hours, up to 5 downloads). Guest checkout, single-user licence — Terms of Sale.
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