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Defence tech in London

London’s defence-tech ecosystem combines the country’s established defence base with one of Europe’s deepest pools of software, AI and venture expertise. BAE Systems, Dstl and Babcock sit alongside Anduril UK, Helsing and Palantir UK, while NATO Innovation Fund and In-Q-Tel connect founders to capital shaped explicitly around national security. The result is a particularly cross-disciplinary cluster, where advances in AI, cyber, space and quantum can move between specialist teams, major contractors and defence customers within the same city.

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