The Munich metropolitan area is Germany's largest defence technology cluster. The city itself and its surrounding towns of Ottobrunn, Taufkirchen, Gilching and Oberpfaffenhofen form a corridor of defence and aerospace employers stretching south and west. Airbus Defence and Space, HENSOLDT, MTU Aero Engines and Rohde & Schwarz all maintain major operations here, alongside a growing concentration of defence tech startups.

