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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.

This is a single-stage EDF Development Action, part of the spin-in EDF-2025-DA-SI call, with an indicative 2025 budget of EUR 49,000,000 for this topic. As with the soldier-systems topic in this batch, the grant must include financial support to third parties (FSTP, cascade funding): the winning consortium runs its own selection process to fund smaller companies, including newcomers to defence, to

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Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.