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Training Data · Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Stark Plans to Invest Over Half a Billion Euros in R&D and Manufacturing

Uwe Horstmann shares that Stark intends to invest approximately 600 million euros over the next 12 to 36 months into research, development, and production capability build-up to compete with major European defense primes.

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“It's a sum of probably something like 600 million euros, you know, significantly more than half a billion dollars, potentially much more. That's all going to go into research and development and products, you know, production capability build up.”
Uwe Horstmann
Heard on Training Data — “European Defense Sovereignty Starts in the Factory: Stark’s Uwe Horstmann and Johannes Schaback”, published Wednesday, October 28, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Stark Plans to Invest Over Half a Billion Euros in R&D and Manufacturing — Heardvine