Map Europe's defense
industrial base.
A free, open source intelligence tool for mapping defense production capacity, identifying supply chain bottlenecks, and tracking critical vulnerabilities across Europe's rearmament effort.
Built by Ties Klinkhamer — open to researchers, investors, policy makers, journalists, and founders.
Facility Atlas
Interactive geospatial map of 90+ defense manufacturers across Europe. Filter by category — ammunition, land systems, air defense, naval. Click any facility to see capacity, expansion targets, sovereignty scores, and sources.
Vulnerability Intelligence
Seven ranked supply chain vulnerabilities — from nitrocellulose shortages to air defense production constraints. Each entry includes severity, recovery timeline, mitigation status, venture opportunities, and active startups.
Defense Atlas
Full documentation: country-by-country production profiles, supply chain flow maps, facility tables with capacity vs. target data, bottleneck detail, and methodology. Exportable in GeoJSON, CSV, JSON, and PDF.
Seven structural bottlenecks are throttling European rearmament. Each one is tracked, scored, and updated — with the venture opportunities they represent.
70%+ of European propellant-grade NC sourced from China. Active export restrictions since June 2023. ~10,000–14,000 MT/year shortfall.
Boutique manufacturing at scale. MBDA backlog: €37B. IRIS-T: 150 missiles/year vs. 2,000 target. Global SHORAD market: $18B → $26B by 2030.
1970s-era batch production running 3–5× below wartime demand. NATO target: 2M 155mm rounds/year. Europe currently at 300–400k.
150,000–200,000 unfilled defense-sector positions. Rheinmetall: 8,000 applications for 3,000 vacancies. No EU workforce platform exists.
Duplicated national champion capacity. 5–10 year production cycles. Rheinmetall acquired NVL Group March 2026. Consolidation underway.
Defense Tech Founders
Identify where structural supply gaps exist before entering a market. The nitrocellulose shortage, workforce deficit, and air defense production constraint each represent unmet venture opportunities with no funded EU competitor.
- —Qualify market size using real capacity data
- —Identify unmet demand before cold outreach to primes
- —Anchor fundraising thesis in sourced intelligence
Investors
Sharpen thesis before a partner meeting. Cross-reference bottleneck severity with active startup coverage to find whitespace. Export facility data for portfolio benchmarking.
- —Map whitespace against 7 ranked vulnerabilities
- —Assess startup positioning against real production constraints
- —Export structured data for internal research
Policy Makers & Procurement
Understand where European production capacity is critically exposed. Track mitigation progress and time-to-recovery across supply chain tiers — from raw materials to finished systems.
- —Prioritize procurement by bottleneck severity tier
- —Track facility expansion plans vs. NATO targets
- —Identify single-source dependencies across 27 nations
Researchers & Journalists
Access sourced, structured data on European defense infrastructure. Every facility entry links to primary sources. Export as CSV, GeoJSON, or PDF for publication.
- —Sourced facility data with dates and publisher
- —Export in standard formats for GIS and data tools
- —Country-by-country production profiles in the Docs view
As a defense tech investor at Keen Venture Partners, I needed this data and it didn't exist in a usable form. So I built it — and made it public.
Intelligence shouldn't be gated behind consultancy fees when Europe's rearmament is the defining industrial moment of this decade. If the data helps a founder articulate their market, an analyst sharpen a thesis, or a government official prioritize procurement — that's the point.
Transparency builds a stronger Europe.
Free and open source. Built for researchers, investors, policy makers, journalists, and anyone who cares about European strategic autonomy.