Gdansk
Polish Baltic port and Pomeranian capital; Kongsberg plans a counter-drone plant in its Tri-City area.
Gdańsk's Tri-City area is to host a Kongsberg counter-drone factory: the Norwegian group announced on 13 October 2026 an outlay of over 200m zlotys (about €45m), with series production possible in the first half of 2028.
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Gdańsk (German: Danzig) is a Baltic port in northern Poland and the capital of Pomeranian Voivodeship. Kongsberg's planned plant near the Tri-City will build and maintain counter-drone systems for Poland's SAN programme, which Kongsberg won with PGZ and APS in January 2026. It is to employ more than 100 people. Gdańsk's Remontowa Shipbuilding already builds the Kormoran II mine countermeasure vessels for the Polish Navy.
The city hosted the Ukraine Recovery Conference on 25-26 June 2026, where the EU released the first €3.2bn tranche of its €90bn loan to Ukraine. At the same conference, Germany's ARX Robotics and Ukraine's Roboneers founded ARX Industries in Gdańsk to mass-produce the Rys Pro uncrewed ground vehicle in both countries.
Gdańsk is where German forces opened The Second World War at Westerplatte on 1 September 1939, and where the Solidarity trade union was founded at the Lenin Shipyard in 1980. Its shipyards and the planned Kongsberg plant now tie it to Poland's rearmament.
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