Adapting civilian platforms for military use can speed up defence production while increasing standardization, the CEO of Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen said, as pressure to boost military spending in Europe grows under President
Adapting civilian platforms for military use can speed up defence production while increasing standardization, the CEO of Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen said, as pressure to boost military spending in Europe grows under President Donald Trump.
"The processes need to be simplified so that we get the speed up," arms manufacturer Kongsberg's Geir Håøy told Reuters in an interview published on Friday.
"What we see is that, even from the defence side now, the question is: How can we utilize commercial products and systems and put them into military systems and militarize them?"
Last week, the Trump administration shocked European allies by telling them they must take care of their own security and rely less on the U.S., while announcing talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pushed Europeans to hike military spending to 5% of GDP, warning "stark strategic realities" would prevent the U.S. from being primarily focused on the security of Europe.
European defence stocks rose after these remarks.
As many countries are working on modernizing and increasing their navies, Haoy said one solution would be to standardize vessels by basing them on civilian platforms and militarizing them, thus mitigating the problem
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