Europe flies on drones it does not make. We are building a turnkey manufacturing line on Irish soil — to protect our subsea cables, watch our coasts, and serve our farms and our future. Made in Ireland, made for Europe.
Irish-made drones, flying Irish skies — protecting cables, planting forests, watching the coast, and built on an Irish factory floor.
Survey, livestock and grassland — a farmer waves up his phone, the drone answers.
Autonomous seeding and reforestation across the hills.
~75% of transatlantic cables pass near Irish waters. We watch them.
An Irish assembly line — the future of Irish manufacturing.
Ireland's first National Maritime Security Strategy (2025) and National UAS Policy Framework (2025) call for exactly what we build — at home, with the private sector.
"Every day, we see an increasingly volatile geopolitical situation highlighting the vulnerabilities of our critical maritime infrastructure and our ability to monitor and protect our waters."
"At the heart of this strategy is a new whole-of-government approach to protect … our maritime domain … in cooperation with … the private sector."
An Enterprise & Innovation Leadership Group to build "pathways for both indigenous companies and foreign direct investment in drone technology."
The demand is real — subsea cables, offshore wind, the Atlantic coast, farms and rescue — but the aircraft are bought abroad. drones.irish makes the hard part here.
A full production line on Irish soil — headquartered and controlled here, the test that unlocks Enterprise Ireland's High Potential Start-Up route (10+ jobs, €1M sales in three years).
Unmanned aviation is strategic infrastructure now. Home manufacture means supply that isn't hostage to non-EU vendors — NDAA-clean.
We make the motor — the costliest part — in-house at 53–72% below import prices, so every unit sold funds the next line.
A pressure-tested turnkey line from a vetted tier-1 OEM partner, a 160 m² five-zone floor, ~€2.2M Year-1 capex, five-month payback.
Detailed — Wave 2From subsea-cable protection to offshore wind, fisheries, SAR, agriculture and island delivery.
Detailed — Wave 3Enterprise Ireland, Local Enterprise Office, New Frontiers and IDA — applied for transparently, on real merits.
Detailed — Wave 4* Modelled targets from in-house factory research (turnkey line costing, motor BOM, throughput); to be validated against final Irish site, energy and labour quotations.
Subsea cables · offshore wind · fisheries · coast-guard SAR · agriculture · forestry · grid · ports · heritage · and more.