{"id":11614,"date":"2026-04-15T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/11614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:37:13","slug":"belgium-aims-to-punch-above-its-weight-in-defense-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/11614\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Aims to Punch Above its Weight in Defense Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Belgium\u2019s defense industry, long known for small arms and ammunition, is accelerating up the value chain by producing components for larger, high-end weapons and specialized systems that larger companies elsewhere might overlook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">One example has already earned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exail.com\/news\/belgium-naval-amp-robotics-delivers-first-mcm-toolbox-for-the-belgian-dutch-rmcm-programme\" title=\"Belgian and Dutch navies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Belgian and Dutch navies<\/a> as customers: Exail Robotics\u2019 Seascan underwater drone, which can spot mines from 120 meters, even in muddy waters, and communicate with nearby ships to dispose of the explosives safely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium\u2019s defense industry, long known for small arms and ammunition, is accelerating up the value chain by producing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[740,7,7957,7349,69,7956,7959,3164,487,7958,396],"class_list":["post-11614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-asia","tag-belgium","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-defense-spending","tag-europe","tag-exail-technologies","tag-industries","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-societe-nationale-de-constru","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116409469658574454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}