"Clearly there's been an overly strong focus on traditional platforms,"
"Spending patterns have to change as the world around us changes."
"I am hoping we are going to see the spending pattern change from a 99 percent focus on traditional systems and one percent on autonomous systems, to a more even balance."
Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to create Europe's strongest conventional army with hundreds of billions of euros in spending. The rearmament acceleration followed Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and pressure from US President Donald Trump for NATO allies to increase defence spending. Debate has emerged over whether funds should prioritise traditional heavy platforms like tanks and armoured vehicles or modern systems such as AI-enabled drones and autonomous strike UAVs. German tech defence start-ups argue that inexpensive, mass-producible drones proved decisive in contested airspace and that spending patterns must shift. Helsing, founded in 2021 and backed by Daniel Ek, has tested strike drones with the German military.
Read at The Local Germany
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