>>23932494it's already happening, and to be honest you're late
start reading this sort of thing:
>https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news>https://www.twz.com/>https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/>https://des.mod.uk/desider-magazine/>https://consilium-europa.libguides.com/EuropeofDefence/EUpublications>https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fdef20build your mental model of what's what:
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defense_contractorsdo your research, follow the trade shows:
>DIMDEX 2026 (Qatar): Jan 19–22, 2026>SHOT Show 2026 (USA): Jan 20–23, 2026>DefExpo (India): Feb 1–5, 2026>World Defense Show (Saudi Arabia): Feb 8–12, 2026>Undersea Defence Technology (UDT) 2026 (UK): April 14–16, 2026>Farnborough International Airshow 2026 (UK): July 20–24, 2026>Eurosatory 2026 (France):>Enforce Tac 2026 (Germany)listen to what's being said by politicians
there's a large amount of money earmarked, I think that's understood, but European procurement is an incredibly petty and corrupt affarir, and not everybody is going to get an equal slice of the pie
look out for the FCAS collapse when it becomes clear you and the French can't play nicely with each other
