Drone-based affordable mass munitions
Funds affordable loitering munitions and small combat drones that can be mass-produced, with cascade funding for smaller tech companies.
Drone-based affordable mass munitions is a European Defence Fund (EDF) Development Action that funds affordable loitering munitions and small unmanned combat aerial systems for ground indirect fire, designed to be manufactured and deployed at scale, ideally with swarm capability, and drawing directly on lessons from Ukraine's battlefield use of FPV drones and other loitering munitions. It funds a …
This topic wants a new generation of affordable loitering munitions and small unmanned combat aerial systems for ground indirect fire, designed to be manufactured and deployed at scale, ideally with swarm capability. It draws directly on lessons from Ukraine's battlefield use of FPV drones and other loitering munitions.
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