The Hellenic Army has opened three tenders worth an estimated €1.26 million for materials to build its own drones. The army’s procurement directorate dated the notices 4 November. They appeared on Diavgeia, Greece’s public register of government decisions, on 6 November.
Two of the tenders are for FPV drones of a type the notices call “target-impact”: small quadcopters flown into their target. One, at €419,224.19, buys the materials to build them. The largest, at €431,751.61, buys “peripheral materials” for the same drone and for a surveillance quadcopter. The third, at €406,897.58, covers the materials to build the surveillance quadcopter.
The notices name no quantities and no parts. The full documents are in Greek only and must be collected in person from the procurement office in Goudi, Athens, at €26.40 a copy. The tenders are closed procedures under Greece’s defence procurement law, and the lowest price wins.
A drone workshop in Acharnes
Each notice is copied to 306 ΕΒΤ, the army’s telecommunications base plant in Acharnes, north of Athens. The army says the plant houses its Unmanned Systems Manufacturing Workshop. The notices do not say where the materials will be delivered.
Defence Minister Nikos Dendias toured the plant in October 2025. He said it builds Category I and FPV drones and can already make “more than 1,000 drones a year”, according to the broadcaster Skai. He also showed two portable production stations, built to follow large units and make FPV drones “in the field”.
Until a few months before that visit, the ministry said, the plant’s extra job was maintaining drones of civilian types. In April 2026 the army’s chief of staff, Lieutenant General Georgios Kostidis, was briefed there on “the expansion of the production line”. A second army workshop, at Toxotes in Xanthi, briefed the visitors on its drone production by video link.
The first parts order on the register
FlightBrief found no earlier Hellenic Army tender for drone-building materials on Diavgeia in 2025 or 2026. The defence ministry’s other drone purchases there this year were small, such as one drone for €20,000 in October.
Greece is not the only army building its own. Polish military units have signed 3.56 million złoty of contracts since October 2025 for 3D printers and parts to make drones, by FlightBrief’s count.
The army opens the first Greek bids, for the surveillance quadcopter, on 1 December. The FPV bids follow on 2 and 3 December.
