I spoke with a dozen founders and operators on background at Europe’s major defense startups and neoprimes. Accessible and realistic testing ranges are rate limiting European rearmament.
The queue itself can become a financing test. A startup may have to raise another round simply to survive until its work is assessed, giving the timetable a say in ownership and bargaining power as well as survival. That cost belongs in the procurement discussion too.
The queue itself can become a financing test. A startup may have to raise another round simply to survive until its work is assessed, giving the timetable a say in ownership and bargaining power as well as survival. That cost belongs in the procurement discussion too.
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The bit about booking range time being a full time job rings true. Nobody puts that on a pitch deck.