EU Federated Integrated Air and Missile Defence
EU joint project federating member states' air and missile defence and Early Warning.
The Council made EU-FIAMD eligible for European Defence Industry Programme co-funding on 28 September 2026. At an estimated €55bn to €80bn by 2040, the air and missile defence effort is the largest of the five projects chosen that day.
Last refreshed: 1 October 2026
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EU Federated Integrated Air and Missile Defence including Early Warning (EU-FIAMD) aims to give member states collective integrated air and missile defence, with Early Warning and shared command and control. the Commission's July 2026 proposal covers a common architecture, faster production of existing systems and joint procurement, in line with NATO requirements.
That proposal listed 16 participants: 14 member states, among them Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Spain, plus Norway and Ukraine.
EU-FIAMD's envelope dwarfs its siblings. Its estimated size is more than ten times that of DECODER, the drone and counter-drone project approved alongside it, which leaves missile defence, not cheap drones, carrying the weight in Europe's shared plans.