Europe’s Kill Web Moment
How agentic AI, counter-UxS systems and software-defined architectures are reshaping European defence industry
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About this report
Europe is entering a defence investment cycle in which the decisive question is no longer only how much capital governments will mobilise, but where that capital will settle inside the industrial base.
EDIP, SAFE, EDF, national rearmament plans and the European Drone Defence Initiative are accelerating demand for drones, counter-drone systems, electronic warfare, tactical edge computing and AI-enabled command architectures.
Key questions this report answers
- How is Europe's defence investment cycle shifting demand toward drones, counter-drone systems, electronic warfare, tactical edge computing and AI-enabled command architectures?
- How are instruments such as EDIP, SAFE, EDF and the European Drone Defence Initiative reshaping where capital settles in the industrial base?
- How is value moving from platform builders to system orchestrators across the kill web stack?
- What capital, procurement and policy consequences follow from this capability shift?
Inside this report
- The capability shift and the policy baseline
- From platform builders to system orchestrators
- The kill web stack and where value is moving
- Capital, procurement and policy consequences
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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