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Thermal batteries

A configuration-first profile of evidenced European thermal-battery production, non-comparable unit observations, programme associations and qualification boundaries.

Which European thermal-battery configurations can supply which defence systems, where is current production evidenced, and how constrained is substitution by design and qualification?
SB-SCP-0001Version 0.1.0COMPONENTEvidence cutoff 2026-08-28Europe research scope

Evidence narrows producer identity before it closes usable supply

As of 2026-08-28
Bounded current producers5

Five producer lanes are evidenced; four production sites are resolved and SAGE remains operator-only.

Comparable current capacityUNKNOWN

The retained site, global-group and subcomponent quantities are not comparable and remain excluded.

Uncommitted qualified supplyUNKNOWN

No source joins exact configuration, accepted programme, commitments, output and headroom.

Comparable capacity headlineUNKNOWN

Comparable current European thermal-battery manufacturing capacity. No retained source set provides comparable current site-level thermal-battery capacity across the bounded producer map; actual output, programme-qualified output and commitments are not joined.

Inference boundary. Visible producers and advertised capability do not establish poolable capacity, compatible configurations, surplus, deficit or a current shortage.
01 · Component role

The relevant object is a configuration-qualified power subsystem

A small component can be strategically consequential while generic unit counts remain analytically weak.

  1. 01Dormant reserve powerThe battery remains inactive through storage and is activated for a bounded mission.
  2. 02Configuration-specific outputElectrical profile, duration, package, interfaces, activation and environment are design variables.
  3. 03Host-system qualificationTesting and customer acceptance bind the usable unit to a system or configuration scope.
  4. 04Qualified weapon outputA missing accepted power source can block an otherwise complete guided system without proving a present shortage.

Configuration scope

Single-use thermally activated reserve-battery designs for missiles, guided munitions, fuzes and adjacent defence applications within the included geography.

Configuration boundary

A usable unit is bounded by its electrical and load profile, duration, envelope, interfaces, activation, environment, storage requirement, manufacturing route and host-system acceptance; a shared family label does not establish interchangeability.

Profile scopeEurope research scope. Exclusions: Russia; Belarus; civilian heat-storage systems; out-of-scope non-European producers except explicitly labelled context. The producer map is a bounded current-source result, not a complete census, market-share distribution, procurement map or statement that no other European producer exists.
02 · European production base

Five current lanes are evidenced at unequal geographic resolution

The map distinguishes a resolved production site from a producer whose exact line location remains public-source unresolved.

North · 66°NSouth · 35°NWest −12° → East 42°
  1. 1ASB Aérospatiale Batteries
    Bourges production site
    FR · SITE RESOLVED
  2. 2Missiles & Space Batteries
    East Shawhead, Coatbridge
    GB · SITE RESOLVED
  3. 3Diehl Energy Products
    Röthenbach an der Pegnitz production site
    DE · SITE RESOLVED
  4. 4Łukasiewicz IMN Poznań
    Poznań Special Production Department
    PL · SITE RESOLVED
Schematic plot, not a border map. Coordinates represent approximate site locations. Operator-only producers with an unresolved production site are not assigned a marker.

Bounded current European producer records

Producer / locationResolutionCurrent roleEvidence boundary
PRODUCER

ASB Aérospatiale Batteries

France · ASB Aérospatiale Batteries

Bourges production siteTB-CLM-001TB-CLM-002TB-CLM-004TB-CLM-005
SITE RESOLVEDIntegrated thermal-battery design, electrochemical processing, assembly, inspection and environmental testing.The site is resolved; published 60,000/year capability spans its electrochemical range and is not current thermal-only output or qualified headroom.
PRODUCER

Missiles & Space Batteries

United Kingdom · Missiles & Space Batteries Limited

East Shawhead, CoatbridgeTB-CLM-006TB-CLM-007
SITE RESOLVEDOn-site thermal-battery design, powder and pellet processing, battery build, inspection and testing.The 800,000/year figure is anode-process capability only; no finished-battery quantity or qualified headroom is disclosed.
PRODUCER

Diehl Energy Products

Germany · Diehl Energy Products GmbH

Röthenbach an der Pegnitz production siteTB-CLM-008TB-CLM-009TB-CLM-010TB-CLM-012
SITE RESOLVEDQualified thermal-battery manufacturer for build-to-print and in-house designs.Programme and customer names are first-party associations; no current unit capacity, allocation, accepted-source matrix or exclusivity is disclosed.
PRODUCER

Łukasiewicz IMN Poznań

Poland · Łukasiewicz — Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals

Poznań Special Production DepartmentTB-CLM-013TB-CLM-014TB-CLM-015TB-CLM-016TB-CLM-017
SITE RESOLVEDBTR thermally activated reserve-battery development, implementation and serial production.Poland-only sole-manufacturer wording does not imply European exclusivity; output and programme allocation remain undisclosed.
PRODUCER

TÜBİTAK SAGE

Türkiye · TÜBİTAK Defence Industries Research and Development Institute

Operator and general Ankara scope; exact thermal-battery line unresolvedTB-CLM-018TB-CLM-019
OPERATOR ONLY SITE UNRESOLVEDCustom thermal-battery design, manufacture, automated processing, sealing, testing and export supply.SAGE operates at multiple locations; no retained source assigns the thermal-battery production line to an exact site or discloses units or headroom.
Producer-map reading ruleA site marker requires source support for thermal-battery production at that place. SAGE is retained at operator/Türkiye scope because general Ankara addresses do not resolve its exact thermal-battery line.
03 · Configuration and market structure

Programme associations do not create a shared battery market

Named customers, programmes and application classes remain supplier-scoped first-party relationships.

No current shortage or sufficiency finding · WITHHELD CURRENT SUFFICIENCY

Europe has multiple evidenced thermal-battery production lanes, but comparable operating capacity, actual output, programme-qualified output, commitments, demand and uncommitted headroom remain unknown.

First-party programme and application names establish bounded associations only. They do not map one design across programmes, disclose annual allocations or establish exclusive accepted sources.

Configuration-qualified supply is the relevant unitThe usable object is an exact battery design plus controlled manufacture, environmental performance and host-system acceptance, not a generic thermal-battery unit.

First-party programme and application associations

FIRST PARTY ASSOCIATION

ASB Aérospatiale Batteries

tactical missiles · strategic missiles · guided rockets · guided artillery shells · precision ammunition · safety-and-arming functions

ASB thermal-battery application classes. No named programme, exact design, allocation, exclusivity or cross-programme compatibility is established.

TB-CLM-005
FIRST PARTY ASSOCIATION

Missiles & Space Batteries

missiles · rockets · bomb kits · artillery · countermeasures · underwater devices · ejection seats · emergency power

MSB application classes. No named programme, exact configuration, current allocation or exclusivity is established.

TB-CLM-006
FIRST PARTY ASSOCIATION

Diehl Energy Products

ESSM · IRIS-T · PATRIOT · RAM · SSTD · AASM-Hammer

Programmes named collectively on Diehl's current thermal-battery page. No programme-to-customer-to-configuration matrix, delivery state, allocation, exclusivity or interchangeability is established.

TB-CLM-009
FIRST PARTY ASSOCIATION

Łukasiewicz IMN Poznań

GROM · PIORUN · BŁYSKAWICA · NAREW · PIRAT · APR-120 · APR-155

Current Łukasiewicz BTR-family programme/use associations. No every-model-to-every-programme mapping, current unit allocation, exclusive accepted source or interoperability is established.

TB-CLM-014
FIRST PARTY ASSOCIATION

TÜBİTAK SAGE

missiles · guidance kits · acoustic countermeasures · fuzes · guided artillery shells · aircraft ejection seats

SAGE thermal-battery application classes. No named programme, exact battery design, annual allocation, exclusive source or accepted substitution is established.

TB-CLM-019
04 · Capacity and expansion

Published quantities answer three different questions

A site capability, a global group capacity and a subcomponent process count cannot form a European headline.

Retained quantity observations

ObservationQuantityMeasurement stateHeadline treatment

Bourges site manufacturing capability

Company-advertised site capability, not a measured current-output series.

TB-CLM-002
up to 60,000 units/yearbatteries across the site's electrochemical rangeREPORTED SITE MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY

Bourges site, France

EXCLUDED

Not thermal-only, actual, utilised, programme-qualified, merchant, uncommitted or European capacity.

ASB global group thermal-battery capacity

Currently advertised global group capacity with non-European scope.

TB-CLM-003
>120,000 units/yearthermal batteries across the global ASB GroupREPORTED GLOBAL GROUP CAPACITY

Global group including Europe, United States and India

EXCLUDED

Overlaps Bourges; not European capacity, actual output, qualified supply or uncommitted headroom.

MSB anode production capability

Company-advertised anode process capability.

TB-CLM-007
≈800,000 subcomponents/yearanodes produced by automated and manual processesREPORTED SUBCOMPONENT PROCESS CAPABILITY

MSB Coatbridge site

EXCLUDED

Not complete thermal batteries, battery capacity, actual output, qualified output or European capacity.

Capacity and expansion boundaryBourges units, ASB global units and MSB anodes count different subjects and scopes. They are neither added nor converted into current output, qualified supply, European capacity or uncommitted headroom.
05 · Dependencies and qualification

Manufacture, configuration and acceptance are joined gates

Observed design, testing and serialisation chains support friction without establishing a universal transfer time.

EVIDENCED MECHANISM

Configuration non-interchangeability

Customer-specific design, host-system requirements and distinct product values mean generic thermal-battery capacity is not automatically poolable across programmes.

TB-CLM-004TB-CLM-008TB-CLM-015TB-CLM-019
EVIDENCED BOUNDED RELATIONSHIP

Fuze and safety-and-arming integration

SAGE explicitly lists fuzes and ASB describes safety-and-arming loads, while exact configuration, munition, supplier and qualification scope remain unresolved.

TB-CLM-005TB-CLM-019
KNOWN TRANSPARENCY BOUNDARY

Non-comparable quantity disclosures

Bourges site units, ASB global group units and MSB anodes cannot be summed or promoted to operating, qualified or uncommitted European capacity.

TB-CLM-002TB-CLM-003TB-CLM-007
UNRESOLVED CONFLICT

MBDA exclusivity wording conflict

ASB's broad exclusivity wording and Diehl's MBDA customer listing require programme, date, geography and configuration reconciliation before any concentration inference.

TB-CLM-022
UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCY

Technology lineage versus import dependence

Diehl's EaglePicher technology lineage and SAGE's domestic/ITAR-free language do not disclose a comparable European finished-battery or upstream import ratio.

TB-CLM-010TB-CLM-018TB-CLM-019
EVIDENCED MECHANISM

Diversification without commissioned units

The SSB project evidences an intended capacity and sustainability mechanism but no awardee, commissioning, unit increment or completion probability.

TB-CLM-020
RESEARCH ONLY

Alternative onboard-power architectures

MBDA describes complementary rechargeable batteries and future lithium-primary or sodium-ion research, not current qualified drop-in substitution for thermal batteries.

TB-CLM-021
CURRENT LINE UNRESOLVED

Serbian current-offer candidate

IBG remains a follow-up candidate because current product offers and active-entity evidence do not close current thermal-line operation or its exact site.

TB-CLM-023
exact designcontrolled manufacturing processconfiguration testscustomer or host-system acceptanceusable qualified supply
Substitution boundaryNeither generic battery manufacture nor an alternative power architecture is a qualified substitute without evidence at the exact system, performance, interface, environmental and acceptance scope.

Configuration-scoped storage evidence

Producer / product scopePublished storage lifeBoundary

ASB Aérospatiale Batteries

ASB thermal-battery family

TB-CLM-005
>15 yearsFamily-level first-party claim; not every ASB/MSB configuration, a universal value or infinite shelf life.

Diehl Energy Products

Diehl current thermal-battery family

TB-CLM-012
LONG LIFE · NON-NUMERICCurrent public wording is qualitative; historical numerical brochure values are not promoted.

Łukasiewicz IMN Poznań

BTR-03

TB-CLM-016
13 yearsConfiguration-specific product-sheet value; not a family or European average.

Łukasiewicz IMN Poznań

BTR-05

TB-CLM-017
10.5 yearsConfiguration-specific product-sheet value; not a family or European average.

TÜBİTAK SAGE

SAGE thermal-battery family

TB-CLM-019
>20 yearsFirst-party family claim; not every SAGE design or a universal European shelf life.
06 · Strategic assessment

Importance is evidenced; twelve-month sufficiency is not

The intervention is to close configuration-qualified supply and substitution, not to infer scarcity from visibility.

WITHHELD CURRENT SUFFICIENCY

No current shortage or sufficiency finding

Europe has multiple evidenced thermal-battery production lanes, but comparable operating capacity, actual output, programme-qualified output, commitments, demand and uncommitted headroom remain unknown.

Confidence BOUNDED MULTISOURCE

  • Limitation: The five-lane map is not a complete census.
  • Limitation: The retained quantities have different counted subjects and geographies.
  • Limitation: No demand or accepted-source allocation is joined.
  • Could reverse: Comparable site-level output and qualified allocation evidence becomes available.
  • Could reverse: A bounded demand-and-headroom dataset closes the twelve-month counterfactual.
TB-CLM-001TB-CLM-002TB-CLM-003TB-CLM-006TB-CLM-007TB-CLM-008TB-CLM-013TB-CLM-018
INFERRED

Configuration-qualified supply is the relevant unit

The usable object is an exact battery design plus controlled manufacture, environmental performance and host-system acceptance, not a generic thermal-battery unit.

Confidence STRONG MECHANISM EVIDENCE

  • Limitation: No complete accepted-source matrix is public.
  • Limitation: Exact proprietary configuration details are intentionally not exposed.
  • Could reverse: Evidence demonstrates pre-approved interchangeable configurations across named systems.
  • Could reverse: A common accepted standard is shown to make capacity poolable at the assessed scope.
TB-CLM-004TB-CLM-008TB-CLM-015TB-CLM-019
INFERRED

Capacity transparency is bounded but incomplete

One site capability, one global group capacity and one subcomponent-process count are visible, while comparable current European thermal-battery capacity remains unknown.

Confidence DIRECT QUANTITY BOUNDARIES

  • Limitation: Company-advertised capability is not actual output.
  • Limitation: Global group scope includes non-European operations.
  • Limitation: Anodes are not batteries.
  • Could reverse: Comparable current site-level unit capacities are disclosed for the bounded producer set.
  • Could reverse: Actual and qualified output series become available.
TB-CLM-002TB-CLM-003TB-CLM-007
INFERRED

Qualification friction is an observed mechanism

Customer-specific design, tolerance validation, testing, higher-level assembly work and serialisation evidence show that supplier substitution can require configuration and acceptance work.

Confidence MULTIPLE FIRST PARTY CHAINS

  • Limitation: No universal duration, cost or transfer probability is known.
  • Limitation: Qualification at one supplier or programme does not establish another accepted source.
  • Could reverse: Named programmes disclose already-qualified interchangeable suppliers.
  • Could reverse: Transfer records show bounded low-friction substitution across the relevant configurations.
TB-CLM-004TB-CLM-008TB-CLM-011TB-CLM-015TB-CLM-018TB-CLM-019
INFERRED

Long storage is configuration-specific

Long dormant storage is a defining advantage, but public values of 10.5, 13, above 15 and above 20 years remain product- or family-scoped rather than universal.

Confidence DIRECT PRODUCT AND FAMILY EVIDENCE

  • Limitation: Values are not averaged.
  • Limitation: Qualitative Diehl wording is not converted to a number.
  • Limitation: Shelf life is not current stock availability.
  • Could reverse: A common qualified storage requirement is published for a bounded cross-supplier configuration class.
TB-CLM-005TB-CLM-012TB-CLM-016TB-CLM-017TB-CLM-019
INFERRED

Expansion friction is visible without a common lead time

Türkiye's official diversification project and producer industrialisation chains show that expanding usable supply involves design, production, test and acceptance work, but no comparable incremental units or universal schedule is public.

Confidence BOUNDED MECHANISM EVIDENCE

  • Limitation: The SSB project is not a commissioned new producer.
  • Limitation: The historical Diehl example is not a generic duration.
  • Limitation: Generic site investment is not thermal-battery incremental capacity.
  • Could reverse: A commissioned expansion discloses configuration-qualified incremental units and dates.
  • Could reverse: Multiple current transfer cases establish a comparable lead-time range.
TB-CLM-011TB-CLM-015TB-CLM-018TB-CLM-020
WITHHELD CONCENTRATION VALUE

Producer and geographic concentration remain unquantified

The bounded map spans several countries, but neither producer output shares nor a quantitative geographic distribution is disclosed.

Confidence COVERAGE BOUNDARY

  • Limitation: Producer count is not market share.
  • Limitation: Country count is not a concentration measure.
  • Limitation: The ASB/Diehl MBDA conflict blocks exclusivity inference.
  • Could reverse: Comparable producer output or accepted-source shares become available at a defined market scope.
TB-CLM-001TB-CLM-006TB-CLM-008TB-CLM-013TB-CLM-018TB-CLM-022
WITHHELD IMPORT VALUE

Import dependence remains unquantified

Technology lineage, domestic-capability and ITAR-free claims do not disclose a comparable current European share of imported finished batteries, qualified subcomponents or upstream inputs.

Confidence EXPLICIT SCOPE BOUNDARY

  • Limitation: EaglePicher lineage is not finished-battery import.
  • Limitation: SAGE domestic language is not a Europe-wide ratio.
  • Limitation: Export-control attributes do not prove origin of every input.
  • Could reverse: A bounded bill-of-materials or procurement dataset discloses qualified source-country dependence.
TB-CLM-010TB-CLM-018TB-CLM-019

Intervention points

  1. 01
    Build a configuration-to-programme acceptance matrix

    Ask producers and system primes which battery configurations and alternative sources are accepted for named current programmes without publishing sensitive design details.

    Decision value: Separates visible programme associations from actually substitutable qualified supply.

    TB-CLM-004TB-CLM-009TB-CLM-014TB-CLM-019
  2. 02
    Collect comparable site-level unit flows

    Request current nameplate, actual output, qualified output, committed allocation and uncommitted headroom by compatible configuration class.

    Decision value: Determines whether the five evidenced lanes provide usable twelve-month resilience.

    TB-CLM-002TB-CLM-003TB-CLM-007
  3. 03
    Close supply-transfer and expansion gates

    Document tooling, controlled processes, environmental tests, customer acceptance, safety approvals and time-to-qualified-series for bounded transfer cases.

    Decision value: Turns general qualification friction into a usable substitution-time estimate.

    TB-CLM-011TB-CLM-015TB-CLM-018TB-CLM-020
  4. 04
    Resolve current producer candidates and conflicts

    Reconcile ASB/Diehl MBDA scope and seek recent line or delivery evidence for IBG and other in-scope candidates.

    Decision value: Improves producer coverage without converting marketing copy or search failure into market facts.

    TB-CLM-022TB-CLM-023

Evidence that can change the call

  1. 01
    Which exact thermal-battery configurations are accepted for each current missile, guidance kit, fuze and guided-artillery application?

    Would change: Would establish whether nominal producer multiplicity creates qualified alternatives.

  2. 02
    What are current compatible nameplate, actual, qualified, committed and uncommitted unit flows by site?

    Would change: Would permit a bounded capacity and twelve-month sufficiency assessment.

  3. 03
    Which materials, seals, igniters, electrochemical subcomponents, process tooling and tests are accepted-source constrained?

    Would change: Would separate internal manufacturing breadth from hidden upstream dependence.

  4. 04
    How long do named source transfers and new configuration qualifications actually take?

    Would change: Would replace observed friction mechanisms with a bounded substitution-time estimate.

  5. 05
    Which European alternative onboard-power architectures are presently qualified rather than merely complementary or under research?

    Would change: Would bound technical substitution beyond thermal-battery supplier switching.

Evidence descent · Appendix

Every retained fact and conclusion descends to a located public source.

This deterministic page renders a private, moving-current component-publication object. Corrections require a new version and revision-history entry. It creates no Industrial Network row, public JSON API, migration or canonical component identity.

Profile-local scoped claims (23)
TB-CLM-001

ASB Aérospatiale Batteries operates a current thermal-battery industrial site at Bourges with in-house powder, pellet, pyrotechnic, assembly, inspection and environmental-test functions.

REPORTED · Scope: Bourges, France; current operating and authorised thermal-battery activity through the evidence cutoff.

Limitation: The sources do not disclose actual output, utilisation, qualified configuration allocation, merchant availability or uncommitted headroom.

TB-SRC-001TB-SRC-002TB-SRC-003
TB-CLM-002

ASB advertises that the Bourges centre can manufacture up to 60,000 batteries per year across its electrochemical range.

REPORTED · Scope: Company-reported Bourges site manufacturing capability across the site's electrochemical range.

Limitation: Not actual output, thermal-battery-only capacity, one configuration, qualified supply, merchant capacity, uncommitted headroom or a European total.

TB-SRC-001
TB-CLM-003

ASB advertises global group capacity above 120,000 thermal batteries per year across a group with sites in Europe, the United States and India.

REPORTED · Scope: Currently advertised global ASB Group capacity and group geography.

Limitation: The figure includes non-European operations, overlaps Bourges and is not actual output, qualified supply, uncommitted headroom or European capacity.

TB-SRC-004TB-SRC-005
TB-CLM-004

ASB describes customer-specific design, tolerance-robustness validation and control from incoming-material acceptance through battery-batch acceptance.

REPORTED · Scope: ASB Group design, industrialisation and test process.

Limitation: Does not disclose a universal qualification duration, customer acceptance matrix or transferability between configurations.

TB-SRC-007
TB-CLM-005

ASB associates thermal batteries with missiles, guided rockets, guided artillery, precision ammunition and safety-and-arming functions, and gives a family-level storage claim above 15 years without maintenance.

REPORTED · Scope: ASB thermal-battery family and application classes.

Limitation: No named programme, exact configuration or universal shelf life is established; broader unlimited-storage wording is not treated as infinite life.

TB-SRC-006
TB-CLM-006

Missiles & Space Batteries is an active Coatbridge battery manufacturer describing on-site design, manufacture and logistics plus dry-room powder, pellet and battery-build capability.

REPORTED · Scope: MSB at East Shawhead, Coatbridge, United Kingdom.

Limitation: The evidence does not disclose complete-battery capacity, actual output, qualified output or uncommitted supply.

TB-SRC-008TB-SRC-009TB-SRC-010
TB-CLM-007

MSB advertises approximately 800,000 per year specifically for anode production.

REPORTED · Scope: MSB internal anode/subcomponent process capability.

Limitation: The quantity is not thermal-battery units, battery capacity, actual output, qualified output, European capacity or uncommitted supply.

TB-SRC-008
TB-CLM-008

Diehl Energy Products currently manufactures thermal batteries at Röthenbach and describes itself as a qualified manufacturer and supplier for build-to-print and in-house designs.

REPORTED · Scope: Diehl Energy Products, Röthenbach an der Pegnitz, Germany.

Limitation: Company qualification wording is not a customer-by-customer matrix; no unit capacity, output, allocation, exclusivity or headroom is disclosed.

TB-SRC-011TB-SRC-012TB-SRC-013
TB-CLM-009

Diehl's current thermal-battery page names NSPA, Raytheon, Diehl Defence, Lockheed, MBDA, Airbus, Leonardo, NAMMO and Safran and separately names ESSM, IRIS-T, PATRIOT, RAM, SSTD and AASM-Hammer.

REPORTED · Scope: Current first-party customer and programme associations on Diehl's thermal-battery page.

Limitation: The page does not map each customer to each programme, identify configurations, disclose current delivery or allocation, or establish exclusivity or interchangeability.

TB-SRC-011
TB-CLM-010

Diehl says its thermal-battery production uses EaglePicher technology and that Diehl Defence has owned the company fully since 2021.

REPORTED · Scope: Technology and ownership lineage for Diehl Energy Products.

Limitation: Technology lineage is not imported finished-battery dependence, United States material dependence, current ITAR dependence or lack of German manufacturing autonomy.

TB-SRC-012
TB-CLM-011

A retained historical Diehl example describes about ten months of design and development followed by tests for one naval countermeasure thermal-battery application before planned serial delivery.

REPORTED · Scope: One 2011 contract described in a 2012/13 historical publication.

Limitation: Not a current or universal qualification, supplier-transfer or expansion lead time, and not current output evidence.

TB-SRC-014
TB-CLM-012

Diehl's current thermal-battery page describes long storage life without publishing a current numeric duration.

REPORTED · Scope: Current Diehl thermal-battery family wording.

Limitation: Historical numerical brochure values are not promoted to a current or universal family claim.

TB-SRC-011
TB-CLM-013

Łukasiewicz IMN Poznań is currently evidenced as Poland's sole manufacturer of thermally activated reserve batteries and offers a named BTR family through its Special Production Department.

REPORTED · Scope: Current first-party Polish producer and Poznań production scope.

Limitation: Sole status is Poland-only and first-party; it is not sole-European status, a complete census or evidence of output volume.

TB-SRC-015TB-SRC-016TB-SRC-017
TB-CLM-014

Current Łukasiewicz material associates its thermal-battery work with GROM, PIORUN, BŁYSKAWICA, NAREW, PIRAT, APR-120 and APR-155.

REPORTED · Scope: Current first-party programme/use associations for the Poznań BTR family.

Limitation: The list does not assign every BTR model to every programme, disclose allocations or establish interoperability or exclusivity.

TB-SRC-015TB-SRC-016
TB-CLM-015

Łukasiewicz records a chain from research through development, implementation and serial-production documentation tailored to higher-level assembly requirements, with bounded BTR-to-system project examples.

REPORTED · Scope: Poznań BTR industrialisation and historical GROM/APR-120 project examples.

Limitation: The evidence shows an observed mechanism, not a universal duration, current output volume or interchangeability across BTR configurations.

TB-SRC-017TB-SRC-018
TB-CLM-016

The BTR-03 product sheet gives a storage period of 13 years.

REPORTED · Scope: Łukasiewicz BTR-03 configuration.

Limitation: Not a BTR-family, Polish, European or universal thermal-battery shelf life.

TB-SRC-019
TB-CLM-017

The BTR-05 product sheet gives a storage period of 10.5 years.

REPORTED · Scope: Łukasiewicz BTR-05 configuration.

Limitation: Not a BTR-family, Polish, European or universal thermal-battery shelf life.

TB-SRC-020
TB-CLM-018

TÜBİTAK SAGE reports current design and manufacture of multiple military-standard-qualified thermal-battery types, automated production systems and internal glass-to-metal sealing capability.

REPORTED · Scope: Current SAGE operator capability in Türkiye; general Ankara operating scope only.

Limitation: No units, actual output, uncommitted supply or exact line location is disclosed; general Ankara locations do not establish the production building or facility.

TB-SRC-021TB-SRC-022
TB-CLM-019

SAGE describes custom design to host-system requirements, application in missiles, guidance kits, fuzes and guided artillery, and a product-family storage claim above 20 years.

REPORTED · Scope: Current SAGE thermal-battery family and application classes.

Limitation: Does not establish one design across applications, customer acceptance of substitutes, a universal shelf life, wholly domestic upstream content or unrestricted export.

TB-SRC-021
TB-CLM-020

Türkiye's SSB is pursuing alternatives for thermal batteries to increase capacity and ensure sustainability for a critical subsystem, with particular relevance to guidance kits.

REPORTED · Scope: Current official Turkish industrialisation and supply-diversification project objective.

Limitation: Future-oriented project language does not establish a shortage, awardee, new producer, commissioned output, unit increment, delivery or completion probability.

TB-SRC-023
TB-CLM-021

MBDA states that thermal batteries are its main onboard power solution and account for nearly 90 per cent of its operational systems, while complementary and future power architectures are under study.

REPORTED · Scope: MBDA operational missile-system portfolio and MBDA-described future research as of 13 March 2026.

Limitation: Not 90 per cent of European, NATO or global missiles; not market share, procurement share, supplier concentration or proof that alternatives are currently qualified substitutes.

TB-SRC-024
TB-CLM-022

ASB Group's broad live-undated France-and-United-Kingdom webpage wording concerning MBDA exclusivity cannot be reconciled from public sources with Diehl's current listing of MBDA as a thermal-battery customer.

INFERRED · Scope: Public ASB and Diehl marketing statements concerning MBDA.

Limitation: Programme, date, geography, contract layer and configuration may differ; no exclusivity, market share or concentration result is retained.

TB-SRC-004TB-SRC-011
TB-CLM-023

IBG-Tehnološki centar is an in-scope Serbian current-offer candidate, but the retained evidence does not close current thermal-battery line operation strongly enough to enter the bounded producer count.

INFERRED · Scope: IBG product offering, general manufacturing programme and current Serbian legal-entity security-certificate status.

Limitation: An active entity, 2020-copyright product pages and a general Niš finalisation plant do not establish current thermal-battery production at that site.

TB-SRC-025TB-SRC-026TB-SRC-027
Evidence passages (38)
TB-PASS-001

About us; In-house critical processes

Bourges identity and the listed powder, pellet, pyrotechnic, assembly, inspection and testing functions.

TB-SRC-001TB-CLM-001
TB-PASS-002

Installation 0010006525 — état d'activité and régime

ASB Bourges is recorded in operation with title under authorisation.

TB-SRC-002TB-CLM-001
TB-PASS-003

Contexte; arrêté préfectoral du 12 mars 2021

The inspection report describes authorised study, design, production and commercialisation of thermal batteries at Bourges.

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Industrial capabilities

The Bourges centre advertises manufacture up to 60,000 batteries per year across all kinds of electrochemistries.

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ASB Group in few numbers

The group advertises thermal-battery capacity above 120,000 per year.

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International locations

The group describes sites in France, Scotland, the United States and India.

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Design and manufacture expertise

ASB describes customer-tailored design, robustness validation and controls through battery-batch acceptance.

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Defense; Features

ASB lists missile, guided-rocket, guided-artillery, precision-ammunition and safety-and-arming uses plus over 15 years of maintenance-free storage.

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About us; Industrial capabilities

MSB describes autonomous on-site work and dry-room powder, pellet and battery build.

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Company overview — status, office and SIC

Companies House records the company active at East Shawhead with battery-manufacturing SIC 27200.

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Industrial capabilities — Anode Production (Auto & manual)

The approximately 800,000 annual figure is attached specifically to anode production.

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Thermal Batteries — qualified manufacturer and supplier

Diehl describes build-to-print and own-design thermal-battery manufacture.

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About us — current primary production

Diehl says it primarily produces activatable thermal batteries.

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Location

The company locates its battery-system manufacturing at Röthenbach an der Pegnitz.

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Customers and international programmes

The page separately lists named customers and named thermal-battery programmes.

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About us — EaglePicher technology and ownership

Diehl describes its thermal-production technology lineage and full Diehl Defence ownership since 2021.

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Batteries that make your mission possible — 2011 contract example

The historical article describes about ten months of design/development followed by tests for one naval-countermeasure application.

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Thermal Batteries — characteristics

The current page gives qualitative long storage life without a numeric duration.

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Thermal batteries — producer statement and BTR catalogue

Łukasiewicz describes Poland-only sole-manufacturer status and lists seven BTR models.

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8 September 2025 announcement

The current announcement repeats the bounded Polish manufacturer role.

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Special Production Department — products

The Poznań department lists thermal-battery production.

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Thermal batteries — applications

The current family page lists GROM, PIORUN, BŁYSKAWICA, NAREW, PIRAT, APR-120 and APR-155.

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8 September 2025 announcement — system applications

The dated release independently retains GROM, PIORUN, PIRAT, APR-120 and APR-155 associations.

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Special Production Department — R&D to serial production

The department describes research, development, implementation, serial production and higher-level assembly requirements.

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Completed projects — BTR-06/-07 and BTR-10

Historical projects preserve prototype, acceptance, higher-level assembly test and serial-documentation gates.

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Product data — Okres przechowywania

The BTR-03 sheet states a 13-year storage period.

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Product data — Okres przechowywania

The BTR-05 sheet states a 10.5-year storage period.

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Opening; Production; Testing

SAGE reports design/manufacture, military qualification, automated production, internal glass-to-metal seals and testing.

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Frequently Asked Questions — Where does SAGE operate?

SAGE describes a main Ankara campus plus infrastructure and offices in several other Turkish cities without locating the thermal-battery line.

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Design; Main Applications; Advantages

SAGE describes custom host-system design, named application classes and storage above 20 years.

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Industrialization — project description

SSB describes creating alternatives to increase capacity and sustainability for the critical thermal-battery subsystem.

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Energy Driving Missile Performance; Exploring Next-Generation Energy

MBDA scopes the nearly 90 per cent statement to its operational systems and distinguishes complementary/future power research.

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Domestic markets — France and United Kingdom

ASB's live undated page makes a broad MBDA exclusivity statement without programme or configuration scope.

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Customers

Diehl's current thermal-battery page names MBDA among its customers.

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Military programme — Thermal batteries

IBG's live product page lists three thermal-battery products but carries a 2020 copyright marker.

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About us — manufacturing programme and Niš plant

IBG lists thermal batteries in its programme and a general battery-finalisation plant in Niš without a current thermal-line statement.

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Page 5, entries 256–257

The official extract lists IBG with a legal-entity security certificate valid to 16 December 2029.

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Public source register (27)
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ASB Aérospatiale Batteries

ASB Group · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • About us; In-house critical processesBourges identity and the listed powder, pellet, pyrotechnic, assembly, inspection and testing functions.
  • Industrial capabilitiesThe Bourges centre advertises manufacture up to 60,000 batteries per year across all kinds of electrochemistries.
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Installations classées — ASB Aérospatiale Batteries

Géorisques · Date not published

CURRENT OFFICIAL REGISTER · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Installation 0010006525 — état d'activité and régimeASB Bourges is recorded in operation with title under authorisation.
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Rapport de visite d’inspection du 23 septembre 2025

DREAL Centre-Val de Loire · 24 September 2025

CURRENT OFFICIAL INSPECTION · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Contexte; arrêté préfectoral du 12 mars 2021The inspection report describes authorised study, design, production and commercialisation of thermal batteries at Bourges.
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ASB Group

ASB Group · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • ASB Group in few numbersThe group advertises thermal-battery capacity above 120,000 per year.
  • Domestic markets — France and United KingdomASB's live undated page makes a broad MBDA exclusivity statement without programme or configuration scope.
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About us

ASB Group · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • International locationsThe group describes sites in France, Scotland, the United States and India.
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Thermal batteries — fields and applications

ASB Group · Date not published

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  • Defense; FeaturesASB lists missile, guided-rocket, guided-artillery, precision-ammunition and safety-and-arming uses plus over 15 years of maintenance-free storage.
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Expertise

ASB Group · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Design and manufacture expertiseASB describes customer-tailored design, robustness validation and controls through battery-batch acceptance.
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Missiles & Space Batteries

ASB Group / Missiles & Space Batteries · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • About us; Industrial capabilitiesMSB describes autonomous on-site work and dry-room powder, pellet and battery build.
  • Industrial capabilities — Anode Production (Auto & manual)The approximately 800,000 annual figure is attached specifically to anode production.
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MSB contact

ASB Group / Missiles & Space Batteries · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Contact detailsMSB lists East Shawhead, Coatbridge as its address.
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Missiles & Space Batteries Limited — company SC162626

UK Companies House · Date not published

CURRENT OFFICIAL REGISTER · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Company overview — status, office and SICCompanies House records the company active at East Shawhead with battery-manufacturing SIC 27200.
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Thermal Batteries

Diehl Energy Products · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Thermal Batteries — qualified manufacturer and supplierDiehl describes build-to-print and own-design thermal-battery manufacture.
  • Customers and international programmesThe page separately lists named customers and named thermal-battery programmes.
  • Thermal Batteries — characteristicsThe current page gives qualitative long storage life without a numeric duration.
  • CustomersDiehl's current thermal-battery page names MBDA among its customers.
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About us

Diehl Energy Products · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • About us — current primary productionDiehl says it primarily produces activatable thermal batteries.
  • About us — EaglePicher technology and ownershipDiehl describes its thermal-production technology lineage and full Diehl Defence ownership since 2021.
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Location

Diehl Energy Products · Date not published

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  • LocationThe company locates its battery-system manufacturing at Röthenbach an der Pegnitz.
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Batteries that make your mission possible (2012/13 publication)

Diehl Energy Products · Date not published

HISTORICAL FIRST PARTY REPUBLICATION · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Batteries that make your mission possible — 2011 contract exampleThe historical article describes about ten months of design/development followed by tests for one naval-countermeasure application.
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Thermal batteries

Łukasiewicz — Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Thermal batteries — producer statement and BTR catalogueŁukasiewicz describes Poland-only sole-manufacturer status and lists seven BTR models.
  • Thermal batteries — applicationsThe current family page lists GROM, PIORUN, BŁYSKAWICA, NAREW, PIRAT, APR-120 and APR-155.
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Łukasiewicz-IMN recognised for its innovative thermal battery

Łukasiewicz — Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals · 8 September 2025

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • 8 September 2025 announcementThe current announcement repeats the bounded Polish manufacturer role.
  • 8 September 2025 announcement — system applicationsThe dated release independently retains GROM, PIORUN, PIRAT, APR-120 and APR-155 associations.
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Special Production Department

Łukasiewicz IMN Poznań Branch / CLAiO · Date not published

CURRENT RETAINED FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Special Production Department — productsThe Poznań department lists thermal-battery production.
  • Special Production Department — R&D to serial productionThe department describes research, development, implementation, serial production and higher-level assembly requirements.
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Completed projects

Łukasiewicz IMN Poznań Branch / CLAiO · Date not published

HISTORICAL FIRST PARTY PROJECT LEDGER · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Completed projects — BTR-06/-07 and BTR-10Historical projects preserve prototype, acceptance, higher-level assembly test and serial-documentation gates.
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BTR-03 product sheet

Łukasiewicz — Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY PRODUCT SHEET · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Product data — Okres przechowywaniaThe BTR-03 sheet states a 13-year storage period.
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BTR-05 product sheet

Łukasiewicz — Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY PRODUCT SHEET · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Product data — Okres przechowywaniaThe BTR-05 sheet states a 10.5-year storage period.
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Thermal Battery

TÜBİTAK SAGE · 28 March 2024

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Opening; Production; TestingSAGE reports design/manufacture, military qualification, automated production, internal glass-to-metal seals and testing.
  • Design; Main Applications; AdvantagesSAGE describes custom host-system design, named application classes and storage above 20 years.
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SAGE — organisation and operating locations

TÜBİTAK SAGE · Date not published

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Frequently Asked Questions — Where does SAGE operate?SAGE describes a main Ankara campus plus infrastructure and offices in several other Turkish cities without locating the thermal-battery line.
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Next-Generation Thermal Battery Indigenization and Supply Diversification Project

Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye — Secretariat of Defence Industries · Date not published

CURRENT OFFICIAL PROJECT · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Industrialization — project descriptionSSB describes creating alternatives to increase capacity and sustainability for the critical thermal-battery subsystem.
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The Energy Behind the Strike: Power at the Core of Missile Systems

MBDA · 13 March 2026

CURRENT FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Energy Driving Missile Performance; Exploring Next-Generation EnergyMBDA scopes the nearly 90 per cent statement to its operational systems and distinguishes complementary/future power research.
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Military programme

IBG-Tehnološki centar · Date not published

CURRENT OFFER FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Military programme — Thermal batteriesIBG's live product page lists three thermal-battery products but carries a 2020 copyright marker.
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About us

IBG-Tehnološki centar · Date not published

CURRENT OFFER FIRST PARTY · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • About us — manufacturing programme and Niš plantIBG lists thermal batteries in its programme and a general battery-finalisation plant in Niš without a current thermal-line statement.
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Extract from the register of legal-entity security certificates

Office of the National Security Council of Serbia · 24 February 2026

CURRENT OFFICIAL REGISTER · accessed 2026-08-28

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  • Page 5, entries 256–257The official extract lists IBG with a legal-entity security certificate valid to 16 December 2029.

Revision history

DateVersionChange
2026-08-280.1.0Published the first Strategic Component Profile with a five-lane bounded producer map, explicit site resolution, non-comparable quantity accounting, programme and storage boundaries, and no current shortage or sufficiency finding.
Publication boundary. SB-SCP-0001 is an analytical-publication identity, not a canonical component, supplier, facility, programme or accepted-source identity. The public Industrial Network remains industrial-network-api-v0.1 over released industrial-network-v0.2.