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Frankenburg Technologies Opens First Baltic Missile Assembly Facility in Riga
6/23/2026, 11:48:07 PM
Opening of the Riga Weapon System & Missile Assembly Factory
Frankenburg Technologies inaugurated its Riga Weapon System & Missile Assembly Factory in Latvia, the first missile production site in the Baltic region and the first affordable air-defence missile plant worldwide. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius, who addressed the assembled team.
FieldFoundry Model and European Defence Context
FieldFoundry is Frankenburg’s modular, lean-manufacturing system for sovereign, high-volume missile production. It can be installed in existing facilities, temporary structures or containerised units, enabling allied nations to build local missile capacity quickly and cut dependence on long supply chains.
Production Capacity and Expansion Plans
The 1,000-square-metre Riga plant will employ up to 50 staff and is designed to scale to 100 missiles per day by the end of 2026, with an initial target of 1,500 missiles that year. Together with a final-assembly line in Adaži, the two-site system forms Latvia’s first complete FieldFoundry line. Frankenburg also plans additional sites in Estonia, the United Kingdom and Poland, aiming for an eventual annual capacity of one million missiles.
Strategic Impact
Frankenburg says its Mark I guided air-defence missile cuts interception costs by more than tenfold, allowing mass production to counter drone swarms and other aerial threats. Locating production in Latvia shortens resupply times and bolsters NATO-aligned defence readiness across Europe.
Official Statements & Responses
CEO Kusti Salm stressed the shift to affordable, rapidly producible missiles and the need for scalable, low-capital facilities. Chairman Taavi Madiberk described defence as entering a “production age,” highlighting the urgency of industrial capacity against proliferating warhead-mounted drones. Commissioner Kubilius emphasized Europe’s need to move from limited, costly production to larger-scale, affordable systems, citing the Riga plant as a concrete example of new industrial ambition.
Verbatim Quotes
- “The era of affordable defence missiles has arrived. For too long, guided missiles have been scarce, expensive and slow to replenish.” — Kusti Salm, CEO, Frankenburg Technologies
- “Frankenburg is proving they can be built differently: with missile speed and precision, but with the production logic of scale bringing costs down. Riga shows what that model looks like in practice, as compact, fast to set up, lower in capital intensity and scalable across allied countries.” — Kusti Salm, CEO, Frankenburg Technologies
- “Defence is entering its production age. Millions of warhead-mounted drones already exist, and the free world now needs the industrial capacity to defeat them.” — Taavi Madiberk, Chairman, Supervisory Board, Frankenburg Technologies
- “Europe must be able to move from limited and expensive production toward affordable systems produced in larger numbers. Frankenburg’s work in Riga is an example of the industrial ambition and new thinking Europe needs to strengthen its defence readiness.” — Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defence and Space
