Northern Europe at night from orbit, city lights along the coastlines beneath an aurora

Building in defence, since 2025

Europe - is rearming.

From next-generation sensors and uncrewed systems to command networks, Daft Robot Labs is spearheading the future of the defence and security industry.

Base
Stockholm
Established
2025
Focus
Defence industrial base
Coverage
Nordic and Baltic

5.0%

Of GDP. NATO target for 2035.

NATO, The Hague, June 2025

SEK 26.6bn

Added to Swedish defence for 2026. Up 18 percent.

Government of Sweden, September 2025

USD 8.7bn

Raised by European defence startups in 2025, a record.

Resilience Media, 2025

581 000

People in European defence, 2023.

European Defence Agency

Live

Defence spending runs from 1.9 to 4.2 percent of GDP around the Baltic. Sweden has published a path to 3.5 by 2030.

The full series, and the targets to 2030

World Bank open data

Fetching from World Bank open data.

A Visby class corvette under way in the Baltic Sea
The EU has opened EUR 150 billion of lending for common procurement. Sixty-one percent of European defence firms cannot fill their cyber-physical roles.

How we work

Real-time data leads to impact

NATO sets the target. The Commission opens the lending. National budgets decide what reaches a factory.

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NATO's floor was two percent of GDP in 2024. The pledge for 2035 is five. The industry has to scale to meet it.