{"id":2431,"date":"2026-06-30T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:26:11","slug":"no-14-small-teams-huge-impact-europes-defence-runs-on-20-person-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/no-14-small-teams-huge-impact-europes-defence-runs-on-20-person-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 14. Small Teams. Huge Impact. Europe\u2019s Defence Runs on 20-Person Companies."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2431\" class=\"elementor elementor-2431\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-54796fe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"54796fe\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-295f021\" data-id=\"295f021\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-102d3d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"102d3d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Europe doesn\u2019t run out of ideas.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">It runs out of small companies that can deliver them.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I meet SMEs with:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">12 people<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">two CNC machines<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">one quality engineer<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">and decades of know-how<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And they produce components that:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">keep aircraft flying<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">keep systems operational<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">keep export programs alive<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">keep OEMs on schedule<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here\u2019s the reality:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">More than 50% of critical defence components in Europe come from companies with fewer than 50 employees.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">They are invisible.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But without them, nothing moves.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Europe\u2019s industrial autonomy begins in workshops that never make the news.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe doesn\u2019t run out of ideas.It runs out of small companies that can deliver them. I meet SMEs with: 12 people two CNC machines one quality engineer and decades of know-how And they produce components that: keep aircraft flying keep systems operational keep export programs alive keep OEMs on schedule Here\u2019s the reality: More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}