More than 100 highly skilled jobs will be created in Wiltshire as the UK steps up its domestic manufacturing of drones.

STARK’s new manufacturing facility in Swindon marks a major expansion of the UK’s defence industrial base – creating more than 100 jobs in the first year including in software, electronics and aerospace engineering and helping to make Defence an engine for growth.

The purpose-built 40,000 sq ft factory, which was opened by the Minister for the Armed Forces Al Carns today, is STARK’s first production site outside Germany. It will begin manufacturing a range of AI-enabled uncrewed systems in the coming months.

The investment directly supports the government’s Strategic Defence Review, which set out the UK’s commitment to boosting sovereign production of uncrewed systems

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