June 23, 2026 \u2013 Frankenburg Technologies has opened its Riga Weapon System & Missile Assembly Factory, establishing the first missile production facility in the Baltic region and the first operational step in the company\u2019s FieldFoundry manufacturing model for affordable, high-volume missile system production.<\/p>\n
The opening was attended by Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defence and Space, who joined Frankenburg leadership for the ribbon-cutting ceremony and addressed the company\u2019s team at the new facility.<\/p>\n
The Riga site supports production of Frankenburg\u2019s Mark I guided air defence missile system, including missile electronics assembly, weapon system assembly, fire control system integration, production testing and quality control. The facility was established in 12 months and is designed around modular production stations, lean manufacturing processes and standardised workflows.<\/p>\n
Together with Frankenburg\u2019s planned final assembly site in \u0100da\u017ei, the Riga facility will form the company\u2019s first complete Latvian FieldFoundry production system. The two-site setup is planned to reach capacity of up to 100 missiles per day by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n
The Riga facility covers approximately 1,000 m\u00b2 and is expected to employ up to 50 people. Frankenburg will produce 1,500 missiles in 2026 as the company ramps from initial low-rate production to higher-volume manufacturing.<\/p>\n
FieldFoundry is Frankenburg\u2019s manufacturing model for sovereign high-volume missile system production. It is built around modular production stations, lean manufacturing processes and standardised workflows. Production can be deployed in existing facilities, temporary structures or containerised installations and scaled across multiple sites.<\/p>\n
A standard FieldFoundry configuration is designed for capacity of up to 100 missiles per day, with output expandable through additional production lines and multiple sites. The model is intended to help allied nations establish local missile production capacity faster, reduce dependence on long supply chains and replenish stockpiles closer to the point of need.<\/p>\n
Kusti Salm, CEO of Frankenburg Technologies, said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe era of affordable defence missiles has arrived. For too long, guided missiles have been scarce, expensive and slow to replenish. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLatvia has been central to Frankenburg\u2019s development from the beginning,\u201d Salm added. \u201cRiga and \u0100da\u017ei together will form our first FieldFoundry production system and the Latvian foundation of a wider NATO-aligned manufacturing network. From here, we scale to Estonia, the United Kingdom and Poland. That is how Frankenburg moves from thousands of missiles to the annual million-missile capacity Europe will need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taavi Madiberk, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Frankenburg Technologies, said:<\/p>\n
\u201cDefence is entering its production age. Millions of warhead-mounted drones already exist, and the free world now needs the industrial capacity to defeat them. A million missiles a year sounds impossible until somebody builds the system to make it possible. Frankenburg is already building that factory network one FieldFoundry after another.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defence and Space, said:<\/p>\n
\u201cEurope must be able to move from limited and expensive production toward affordable systems produced in larger numbers. Frankenburg\u2019s work in Riga is an example of the industrial ambition and new thinking Europe needs to strengthen its defence readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark I is Frankenburg\u2019s first affordable guided air defence missile system developed to counter mass drone and aerial threats. It is designed to reduce the cost of interception by more that 10\u00d7 and enable mass production of guided air defence missiles for European and allied nations.<\/p>\n
Photo courtesy Frankenburg Technologies\/\u00a9 G. Indr\u0113vics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 23, 2026 \u2013 Frankenburg Technologies has opened its Riga Weapon System & Missile Assembly Factory, establishing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[91],"tags":[57754,169,57755,57756,168],"class_list":["post-115729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-riga","tag-frankenburg-technologies","tag-latvia","tag-mark-i","tag-missile-assembly","tag-riga"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116807184343749364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}