Frankenburg Technologies opens Riga missile assembly site

Estonian SME Frankenburg Technologies has opened a new missile factory in Riga, Latvia, establishing what the company says is the first missile production facility in the Baltic region.

The Riga Weapon System & Missile Assembly Factory, designed to support the production of the company’s Mark I guided air defence missile system, was officially opened on 23 June 2026.

Manufacturing operations at the site will include missile electronics and weapon system assembly, fire control integration, production testing, and quality control.

Frankenburg Technologies says that the facility took 12 months to establish and is organised around modular production stations and standardised workflows. The facility covers approximately 1,000 square metres and is expected to employ up to 50 people.

Together with a planned final missile assembly site in nearby Ādaži, the factory in Riga will form Frankenburg Technologies’ first complete production system under its FieldFoundry manufacturing model. A model aimed at delivering sovereign missiles by adopting high-volume processes and workflows. It is designed to be deployed in existing buildings, temporary structures, or containerised installations and scaled across multiple sites.

The Riga and Ādaži sites are intended to produce up to 100 missiles per day by the end of 2026, with a total target for the year set at 1,500 missiles.

Kusti Salm, CEO of Frankenburg Technologies, said Riga and Ādaži will form "the Latvian foundation of a wider NATO-aligned manufacturing network", with expansions planned in Estonia, Poland, and the UK with a long-term aim of one million missiles a year of annual capacity.

The opening ceremony was attended by Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence and Space. There, he said the Riga facility reflects the shift Europe needs to make "from limited and expensive production toward affordable systems produced in larger numbers."