The Emergence of a Distributed European Defence Industry
Ukraine’s Wartime Industrial Transformation and Its Integration into the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base
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About this report
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has fundamentally altered the strategic and industrial foundations of European security. The conflict has demonstrated that high-intensity, industrial-scale warfare has returned to the European continent and that sustaining such warfare requires a defence industrial capacity capable of producing large volumes of equipment, ammunition, sensors, drones, and electronic systems at sustained speed.
The war has simultaneously exposed structural weaknesses within Europe’s defence industrial landscape, including fragmented procurement structures, limited surge production capacity, and persistent dependence on external suppliers.
Key questions this report answers
- How has Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine altered the strategic and industrial foundations of European security?
- What structural weaknesses (fragmented procurement, limited surge capacity, external dependence) did the war expose?
- How do wartime industrial acceleration, joint production and industrial geography reshape a distributed European defence industry?
- What strategic implications follow for capital, standards and industrial integration?
Inside this report
- Introduction: From Emergency Military Aid to Structural Industrial Integration
- Wartime Industrial Acceleration in Ukraine
- European Defence Industrial Policy and Ukraine
- Joint Production and Industrial Geography
- Capital, Standards, and Industrial Integration
- Strategic Implications for European Security
- Method and evidentiary basis
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 (12 March 2026). You receive a 20-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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