The Attritable Industrial Base: Financing the European Supply Chain for Mass
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About this report
Europe’s defence industrial architecture is undergoing a radical transformation, the most significant since the Cold War. The combination of mass-scale attrition warfare in Ukraine and the strategic pivot embodied by the “Drone Wall” along NATO’s Eastern Flank has forced a doctrinal and financial rupture.
For decades, European defence procurement operated under a paradigm of low-volume, high-cost platforms—exquisite in capability but scarce in number. That model has collapsed under the weight of asymmetric threats, where €500 drones threaten assets worth millions.
Key questions this report answers
- How are mass-scale attrition warfare in Ukraine and the 'Drone Wall' along NATO's eastern flank forcing a doctrinal and financial rupture in European defence procurement?
- How does the financial architecture or capital stack finance a European supply chain built for mass rather than low-volume, high-cost platforms?
- Where are the critical supply-chain bottlenecks - the 'alpha' - in producing attritable Drone Wall effectors?
- What strategic conclusions and outlook follow for financing the attritable industrial base?
Inside this report
- 2. Strategic Context: The Economics of Attrition
- 3. The Financial Architecture (The Capital Stack)
- 4. Industrial Case Study: The “Drone Wall” Effectors
- 5. The Supply Chain “Alpha”: Critical Bottlenecks
- 6. Strategic Conclusions & Outlook
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 (05 December 2025). You receive a 21-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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