Autonomous UAV production
Mission

The next generation of defence capability

Designing a drone is the easy part. Building millions, adapting them every week and coordinating them in the field is the hard part — so that's the problem we went after.

Why now

Affordable mass

Modern conflict consumes unmanned systems — faster than fixed, centralised factories can replace them — at higher rates than free societies can afford.

Production is the bottleneck

The bottleneck has shifted from designing systems to making, adapting and coordinating them at scale — at the edge.

Sovereign by mandate

Europe has to build, own and control its own defence stack. Depending on anyone else is a single point of failure.

The system

A single system — additive fabrication, autonomous flight and mission tasking. Robotic Cells build on demand, the swarm operates as one and a European AI model runs both ends.

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Technology
01 / Frame

VANEA Frame

Modular unmanned systems

Snap-fit UAS, built by robots in minutes — engineered for high-throughput fabrication and minimal cost-per-unit.

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02 / Cell

VANEA Cell

Robotic mobile production

A self-operating production node where robots execute the entire build sequence, no manual assembly.

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03 / Mind

VANEA Mind

Sovereign defence model

A European foundational defence model that monitors and directs production and tasking — in concert.

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VANEA Frame unmanned system
VANEA FRAME · CAD MODELDWG-002
01 — VANEA Frame

Modular unmanned systems.

Frame is a family of unmanned systems built on one snap-together architecture. Every airframe is engineered from day one for robotic assembly and near-zero unit cost.

Snap-together

Parts key together and lock. A robot builds one in minutes. Zero specialist tools.

Swap payloads in minutes

One bay takes ISR, EW or effector modules. Reconfigure the mission in the field.

Lowest cost per unit

Engineered from the BOM up to hit the lowest unit cost physically possible.

Produced on demand

Each Cell produces on demand and can be placed exactly where capacity is needed.

02 — VANEA CellPatent pending

Forward-deployed production capability

A VANEA Cell is a self-contained production node. Robotic stations run additive manufacturing, assembly and test as one automated pipeline — fabricating unmanned systems on-site, on demand, with no human on the line.

Robotic assembly

Robotic manipulators build and integrate every unit end-to-end.

Additive manufacturing

Industrial-grade fabrication of structural components on site.

Quality control

Integrated testing validates each system before release.

Inventory tracking

Real-time visibility into stock and consumption across every Cell.

120drones per day, per Cell
<60 minto first finished unit on site
72+ hautonomous, unattended operation
HIGH CUBE 12 192 mm · 40′ 0″ SIDE ELEVATION END ELEVATION 2 438 mm · 8′ 0″ PRODUCTION UNIT · DATA TYPE 40 FT HIGH CUBE · 1AAA EXT. LENGTH 12 192 mm · 40′ 0″ EXT. WIDTH 2 438 mm · 8′ 0″ EXT. HEIGHT 2 896 mm · 9′ 6″ FUNCTION MOBILE PRODUCTION UNIT
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STATION 03 · ASSEMBLYOverhead 6-axis armAutomated matingFloor-mounted armEnd effector / gripper
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03 — VANEA Mind

A sovereign European defence model.

VANEA Mind is the foundation model that runs production and the fleet as one closed loop — scheduling every production node, allocating drones to missions and fusing sensor data into a live operational picture. Built, hosted, and governed in Europe. Sovereign, not rented.

Core · Mind Cells Frames
Layer 1

Manufacturing intelligence

Monitors every production node and schedules builds against real, observed demand.

Layer 2

Mission intelligence

Allocates and coordinates drones across the fleet in real time, matching capability to the task.

Layer 3

Resilient autonomy

Operates at the edge — keeps producing and tasking even when degraded, contested or disconnected.

Platform

A system that compounds with every deployment.

VANEA is a self-improving system. Drones return labelled data from contested, real-world environments — the training distribution no competitor can replicate. The defence model retrains on that data plus every production run, then feeds the gradient back into what robots build and how the fleet is tasked. Fleet-wide updates, edge inference, human-on-the-loop control. The advantage isn't a feature — it's an emergent property of the loop, compounding with every deployment.

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Where this goes

Beyond our own hardware — a sovereign defence model for Europe.

VANEA Mind orchestrates VANEA's own robots and drones. It is built to do more — to ingest, fuse and coordinate across distributed systems and sensors, ours and others'. The hardware is our wedge; the model is the platform. Our long-term aim is the coordinating brain for distributed, autonomous European defence — owned, hosted, and governed in Europe.

Company

Peace in Europe was a given. Until it wasn't.

VANEA was founded by entrepreneurs who grew up believing war in Europe belonged to the past — the way our parents and grandparents described it, not the way we'd ever live it. That belief broke.

Vectorized Autonomous Network for Engagement & Aerial Defense
Our story

The idea — autumn 2025

We chose to answer it the only way we know how: by building. Frontier technology, put to work defending European sovereignty and independence — and the democracies that stand with it. Ukraine showed us how completely drones have rewritten warfare. VANEA is our response.

The realization

It started with the math. A ~$1.4M interceptor cannot sustainably defend against a ~$50k Shahed — that's a 28:1 cost-exchange ratio working against you, on every single engagement. You don't win an attrition war by spending 28x per kill. That asymmetry is what made us go all-in: rebuild the capability, and Europe's sovereignty, from first principles.

The vision

A distributed network of autonomous, mobile drone factories across Europe — regenerating mass faster than an adversary can attrit it, at the tempo and scale modern conflict actually demands.

Dr. Oliver Hartkorn, Founder and CEO of VANEA
From the founder
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If you want to give Europe the means to defend itself at scale, come and build it with us.

Dr. Oliver Hartkorn

Founder & CEO

Physicist (PhD, space-plasma physics) and former patent attorney and partner. Spent years protecting and commercialising deep-tech and hardware ventures from the inside — then left his own law firm to build VANEA full-time.

SCALABLE DEFENCE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EUROPE.