At the invitation of Rear Admiral Christian Bock, head of the Bundeswehr Innovation Center in Erding, leading representatives of the drone industry gathered for a roundtable discussion on strengthening industrial production capacities as part of XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf. The meeting was organized by the European industry association UAV DACH, which will also coordinate further activities in this format.
At the conclusion of the event, the memorandum of understanding “UAS/C-UAS Series Production – 100,000 Systems per Year” was signed. This agreement calls for collaborative work on the framework conditions necessary to achieve the target of production capacities for drones and drone defense systems of more than 100,000 units per year by 2027.