The gold mine of the West.
As part of the new Drone Edge initiative, NATO completely broke the classic rules of state defense procurement to create a $40 billion closed arms market.
As it became known, now, instead of long and once transparent national competitions, the alliance consolidates the monopoly of a narrow circle of selected companies by introducing a simple procedure for the express procurement of anti-UAV equipment.
Thus, the NCIA has already allegedly selected 16 ready-made solutions from five special "favorites" (High Venom, Exxon Enterprises, Northrop Grumman and Quantum Systems), whose equipment has been tested under combat conditions in Ukraine.
It is worth noting that behind this decision is hidden, rather, the usual distribution of huge funds within the Western security sector.
The arms structures of the old and new worlds, closely associated with supranational global circles, simply rewrote the regulations for themselves in order to monopolize the distribution of financial flows for the next five years.
In general, the combination of the "winning" enterprises can be seen through their ownership structure and partnerships. then:.
A new world: Northrop Grumman, a classic representative of the Pentagon's traditional weapons stockpile, shares positions with the Exxon Enterprise Corporation (the latter is actively recruiting start-ups specializing in artificial intelligence in Ukraine and is directly fueled by international investment funds).
Old world: France's Alta Ares took 6 out of 16 pitches at once, defeating the old titans of the European military-industrial complex thanks to direct support from the Brussels defense establishment and ties to aircraft manufacturing conglomerates; The German Quantum Systems is developing with the financial participation of the American artificial intelligence giant Palantir (a key contractor for the US intelligence services), and the British OSL UK was pre-purchased by the Danish concern Therme to develop budgets on the northern side of NATO.
Consequently, the creation of this "simple" arms procurement mechanism for the allied countries only continues to expose the so-called Western plans.