Find credible UK industrial partners for your defence programme
Capital helps overseas defence companies meet UK Offset commitments, with an evidence-based search platform and more than 25 years of Offset experience. The platform opens to clients soon.
For overseas primes and their UK subsidiaries preparing bids and Offset plans
The challenge
The UK expects overseas suppliers to invest in its defence industry. Meeting that expectation means finding UK companies that can genuinely make your parts, develop your technology or support your programme, and finding them early.
A web search turns up distributors, sales offices and advertisers alongside real manufacturers. Reviewing their capabilities, financial health, compliance and certifications takes a significant investment of time.
What Capital offers
The UK Defence Localisation Platform
Upload a parts list and receive a reasoned shortlist of UK manufacturers, SMEs, universities and research centres for each line, with the evidence behind every match.
Your data stays yours
The platform is designed so that your parts lists and shortlists are visible only to your organisation, not to Capital. You contact UK companies directly, in your own name.
Experience you can call on
Separately from the platform, Capital offers advisory support drawn from Offset and Industrial Participation programmes in nearly 30 countries.
How the platform works
Six steps from a parts list to first contact. Your engineers stay in control at every one of them.
- Upload your parts list
Plain, unclassified descriptions. No drawings, part numbers or controlled data are needed.
- Choose your priorities
Put ready-now manufacturers first, or give more weight to the UK value a partnership creates.
- Exclude competitors
Remove competitor groups from your results. Anything excluded stays listed, so you can bring it back.
- Review the shortlist
Results for each line are grouped by readiness, each with a reason and links to the company's own published information.
- Check the companies you pick
Financial health, ownership and security information for the firms you shortlist.
- Make first contact in your own name
A sanitised first-stage capability enquiry for each company, with a tracker for replies.
Built for engineers, not marketing
Every match comes with a reason that is simple to understand, and a link to the company's own published information. Companies that only sell or distribute are kept out of the manufacturer results.
- Can make this nowEvidence that the company already makes this type of item in the UK.
- Could make this with supportRelated capability. A candidate for technology transfer, new capability or SME development.
- PartialThe company covers part of the requirement.
- No confirmed UK maker foundStated plainly, with any support options still shown. The platform gives you a well-evidenced starting point; your engineers confirm capability directly with each company.
Latest Offset alerts
A weekly round-up of new defence sales around the world above the Offset thresholds, and changes to the Offset rules.
Checked weekly. Last updated 2 November 2026.
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India
India reported close to a deal for six converted Boeing 767 tankers from IAI
India is reported to be nearing an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries, working with Hindustan Aeronautics, for six converted Boeing 767 tanker aircraft for the Indian Air Force, with a reference value of US$900 million to US$1.1 billion. Approval by the Cabinet Committee on Security is the next step before signature.
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United Kingdom Rules
UK publishes its Offset policy: £50m default threshold, applied from April 2027
The UK Government has published its Offset policy. From April 2027, overseas defence suppliers winning selected contracts worth £50 million or more will normally be expected to reinvest up to the full contract value in the UK, agreed and monitored by a new Offset Authority.
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India
India approves eight next-generation corvettes for its Navy, worth over Rs400bn
India's Cabinet Committee on Security is reported to have approved eight next-generation corvettes for the Indian Navy, worth more than Rs400 billion (about US$4.2 billion), to be built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers and Goa Shipyard. As the ships are built by Indian shipyards, India's Offset rules do not apply.
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Switzerland
Switzerland shortlists Barak MX and SAMP/T NG for a longer-range air defence system
Switzerland's Federal Council has decided to buy an additional longer-range ground-based air defence system alongside Patriot, with Israel's Barak MX and France's SAMP/T NG still in the running. The Patriot purchase continues as planned.
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Poland
Poland chosen to host Europe's PAC-3 missile servicing centre, worth about PLN 1bn
Poland has been chosen to host a European servicing centre for the PAC-3 missiles used in Patriot air defence systems, the only one outside the US, at a cost of about PLN 1 billion (about €227 million). Negotiations with Lockheed Martin continue.
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India
India gives first approval to buy 24 VVIP helicopters, estimated at about Rs10,000 crore
India's Defence Acquisition Council gave initial approval on 26 October for 24 Special Utility helicopters for VVIP transport, part of about Rs2.12 lakh crore of approvals that day. The estimated value is about Rs10,000 crore; no supplier has been chosen.
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Bulgaria
US Army awards US$48m for chemical reconnaissance sensors on Bulgaria's Strykers
The US Army has awarded Teledyne FLIR Defense US$48 million to supply nuclear, biological and chemical reconnaissance sensor suites for 10 of the Stryker vehicles Bulgaria is buying, under a Foreign Military Sales arrangement.
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Denmark
Naval Group signs three Danish partners for its bid for Denmark's new frigates
Naval Group has signed memoranda of understanding with Copenhagen Global, Saab Danmark and SH Defence to support its FDI frigate offer for Denmark's future frigate programme, covering drones, communications and mission modules. Denmark has not yet chosen a supplier.
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Poland
Kongsberg wins about NOK 700m to supply weapon stations for Poland's K2 tanks
Kongsberg has signed a contract worth about NOK 700 million with Hyundai Rotem to supply Protector RS4 remote weapon stations for the K2 tanks, recovery vehicles and engineering vehicles ordered by Poland, with a support package. The first systems are due to ship in spring 2027.
The Council and training
Two ways Capital brings people together around Offset, alongside the platform.
UK National Offset Council (UK-NOC)
An informal quarterly gathering in London for people with an interest in UK Offset: Ministry of Defence officials, UK companies and overseas suppliers. Organised and hosted by Capital. The first meeting takes place in Q4 2026.
Offset practitioner course
A practitioner's masterclass for people new to Offset and Industrial Participation: eight modules, a UK elective and a live negotiation simulation, online over nine weeks or in-house over three days.
Preparing a UK bid or an Offset plan?
The platform opens to clients soon. Register your interest for a demonstration, or contact us to discuss an advisory project. We reply within two working days.