Transforming EU military capabilities with advanced technology.

At Kalkan Defense Systems, we believe Europe must stand on its own in the face of rapidly evolving threats. Sovereignty, resilience, and technological independence are no longer optional — they are essential for protecting democratic values and ensuring stability in a volatile world.

Our mission is to deliver true hardware-software defense innovation: UAV systems that combine cutting-edge aerospace engineering, stealth-first design, and AI-driven autonomy. By uniting advanced airframes like the C1 Strigoi, R1 Corvus, and S1 Vultur with Kronos, our AI-powered command-and-control platform, we create a fully integrated ecosystem designed for the modern battlefield.

We are committed to building scalable, rapidly deployable, and 100% European solutions that strengthen the continent’s defense capabilities. Every system we design is developed with sovereignty in mind — engineered, tested, and built in Europe for European defense.

This is more than innovation. It is our contribution to securing the future of Europe’s defense autonomy.

Our Business

Building sovereign cutting-edge technology at speed.


Kalkan Defense Systems is a next-generation defense products company.

Unlike most defense companies, we don’t wait for our customers to tell us what they need. We identify operational gaps, rapidly prototype solutions, and deliver field-ready systems.

By privately driving focused R&D and partnering with European industry and institutions, we turn ideas into deployed capabilities in months, not years, saving the governments and taxpayers money along the way.


The result: mission-grade systems that are ready to buy, integrate, and deploy — faster, smarter, and engineered for European sovereignty.

Key principles:

  • Problem-first product development — we hunt operational problems, then build the solution.

  • Hardware + software, shipped together — avionics, airframes and cloud command work as a single, validated system.

  • Rapid prototyping to fielding — iterative development and real-world testing shorten time-to-capability.

  • European sovereignty — engineered, tested and produced with European supply chains and standards.