The Arsenal is Vaubren's production and test campus: 64,000 square meters where every aircraft is designed, built, flown, and broken inside one fence, by one team, before it ever reaches a customer.
Europe does not lack ideas. It lacks throughput. Deterrence is decided by how many systems a nation can field, update, and replace, and how fast. That is an industrial problem, so we treat the factory as part of the product.
The Arsenal closes the loop between engineering and the field. Design changes reach the production line in days. Every aircraft that leaves the campus has already been flown, jammed, and stressed on the same ground where it was built. No subcontracted final assembly. No third-party test range. One fence around the whole loop.
01 / Integration hallGhost and Vanguard airframes are assembled, instrumented, and fitted with Citadel on a single line. Hardware-in-the-loop racks run the exact flight computers that fly. Same code, same silicon, no surprises.
02 / Flight lineA flight apron with VTOL pads and a grass strip sits outside the hangar door. Every aircraft flies before delivery, and every autonomy build is jammed and GPS-denied on the campus range until it completes the mission anyway.
03 / CampusOffices, crew quarters, and a shared commons stand thirty meters from the line. Engineers, pilots, and production crews live where they build, so a decision made at dinner can be flying by morning.
04 / MasterplanFifteen thousand square meters are under roof today. The remaining ground is reserved: foundations for a second hall, an extended strip, and the capacity a crisis would demand. The site is designed for the production rate we hope is never needed.