Top 6 Startups producing and enhancing artillery systems

Updated: Feb 25, 2026
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These companies produce advanced recoil systems, automated targeting solutions, extended-range munitions, precision-guided shells, modular artillery platforms, etc.
1
Northrop Grumman
Country: USA | Funding: $3.7B
Northrop Grumman produces military aircraft (in particular, the B-2 Spirit - a strategic stealth bomber), large UAVs (RQ-4 Global Hawk, MQ-8 Fire Scout), underwater drones (MQ-4C Triton), develops control systems for various military manned and unmanned aircraft, various types of missiles (SiAW) and anti-missile systems, electronic warfare systems, reconnaissance systems for collecting information, communication systems, navigation, surveillance, computer equipment, radars, warning systems, space force systems (satellites, launch vehicles, missile defense systems), as well as directed energy weapons (lasers) and smart ammunition.
2
Elbit Systems
Country: Israel | Funding: $812M
Elbit Systems develops, manufactures, and integrates defense electronics and electro-optic systems for customers.
3
BAE Systems
Country: UK | Funding: $142.2M
BAE Systems designs, develops, and supports defense and aerospace systems used in the air, on land, at sea, and in space.
4
Nexter
Country: France
Nexter develops a wide range of defense products in the fields of land combat systems, artillery (CAESAR), tanks (LECLERC), ammunition, weapons and robotics.
5
Hanwha
Country: South Korea
Hanwha Defense provides total defense solutions ranging from artillery systems, armored vehicles, air defense and unmanned ground systems.
6
KONSTRUKTA – Defence
Country: Slovakia
KONŠTRUKTA – Defence creates self-propelled autonomous artillery system ZUZANA
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