Extra Billions for Defense: Manufacturers Scale up, Start-Ups Also in the Race

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"Look, this is what I do it for." With a smile, Gerard Zondervan, director of Artillerie Inrichtingen Armaments, shows a photo of one of his grandchildren. Zondervan entered the defense industry to keep the Netherlands - and his descendants - safe. A NATO flag flies at the gate of his Tilburg company. Camera surveillance, heavy fences, but no drones or grenades are being made yet. That should change within a few months. The machines to produce d…