Estonia’s defence industry is agile and adaptive, ensuring a swift and effective response to evolving global threats. We supply a broad range of advanced defence solutions to help other nations enhance their defense capabilities.
Meet the Estonian companies @ MSPO 2024!
Estonia’s defence industry operates within a private sector framework, benefiting from favourable business environment and efficient processes. This accelerates innovation and enables rapid adaptation to emerging defence needs. With expertise in manufacturing and innovation, Estonia stands ready to serve diverse defence needs efficiently and effectively.
Hevi Optronics is designing and developing precision-engineered electro-optical sensor systems for commercial and defence applications. We are integrating the latest sensor technologies and video enhancement algorithms into a modular system architecture. We provide stand-alone and turn-key solutions for Air, Land, Sea and Surveillance markets and offer relevant support and system integration services.
Samelin Ltd. is a Tartu-based company with long traditions in footwear production that date back to 1945.At present, Samelin Ltd. is the biggest footwear manufacturer in the Baltics based on Estonian capital only. The most well-known products are work and safety footwear, military footwear which have been manufactured according to standards of occupational and safety footwear.
Founded in 2012, Threod Systems is one of the most experienced Estonian defence technology companies specializing in the development and manufacture of advanced unmanned aerial systems. Our mission is to enhance battlefield situational awareness and operational effectiveness through reliable, combat-proven solutions. Threod develops and produces three core product groups: VTOL UAS; multifunctional electro-optical payloads for aircrafts; and probably the best pneumatic launcher systems for one-way effectors in the world.
KrattWorks offers a jamming resilient short range multirotor reconnaissance drone with multi-band radio and GNSS-free capabilities. The ISR Ghost Dragon drone is developed based on the lessons learned from Ukraine.
KrattWorks also offers aerial target drones, which include a fast-flying fixed-wing DART platform for air-defence missile and cannon shooting practice. Additionally, KrattWorks provides small PARM multirotor targets for small arms counter-drone drills.
Our loitering munition drone, Dart-X, delivers a 10 kg payload over a distance of 100 or 200 km. The decoy version Dart-R is equipped with radar reflectors to match the desired radar footprint.
Toci OÜ is one of the leading Baltic manufacturers of profile and sheet metal products used in the engineering industry. Our weapon bracket is designed for securing firearms inside vehicles, ATVs and boats. These new type weapon brackets are developed in collaboration with Norwegian Armed Forces and are tested in their laboratories. Weapon brackets have been designed to safely secure both new and older firearms to all armored and non-armored vehicles, heavy equipment and vessels. Bracket is lockable which makes it suitable for police and security services. On the other hand we are also manufacturing and marketing container handling solutions which makes containers delivering to needed destination on storage area or on field easier and faster than ever before. With container legs you can leave container standing on legs but also lift and lower the container from and to the ground. In collaboration with our very good long-term partner Confoot OY we have developed portable and lightweight container legs and at the same time we provide also integrated solutions. What is most important, the customer does not need crane truck any more and container can be transported by one person.
High-mobile defence systems – what is it?
It is a custom designed, manufactured and equipped deployable shelter system.
The goal is to facilitate faster responsiveness, better cost efficiency and lower environmental impact compared to the traditional ”bricks and mortar” infrastructure.
The system allows to transport defence services close to the defence action operatively – in minutes – and gather all the defence tactical needs where they were not feasible before, creating possibilities for new defence strategies and innovation to be implemented.
Our systems support the defence capacity by increasing the sense of security of the defence forces, with providing back security with first aid and recovery facilities, food and ammunition supplies.
MARU Defence design
Our high-mobile systems are a constantly evolving toolbox, with which we can test and develop an infrastructure and service solution for goals, no matter how complex or unusual.
Therefore we offer not only ready-made systems, but design system solutions for any need or vision that the client needs to cover.
We believe in co-creation, inventing together with the defence forces, their direct experience and vision, shaping the most suitable and innovative solution.
With the help of partners, we equip and furnish the system exactly as designed.
MARU Defence is a part of the MARU Group
MARU Group holds strong knowledege and experience in the fields of costruction, building design, general contracting, project management since 1991.
MARU Defence uses the parent companys strenghts to to complement its high-mobile solutions and to deliver any kind of infrastructure anywhere.
More than 430 employees are working in the MARU Group that has a turnover of more than 90 MEUR.
Wayren delivers resilient communication software for mission-critical use, keeping information flowing when networks fail due to jamming, infrastructure loss, or terrain. It operates with 85% data loss – 8× more resilient than traditional systems – proven in Ukraine and NATO’s Eastern Flank. Deployable on any hardware, it links HQ and frontline via radios, mobile or satellite across defence, public safety and industry.
At CybExer Technologies, we offer advanced Cyber Ranges, utilizing digital twin-based testing and training environments. These solutions enable organizations to reach cyber excellence by honing their skills in a simulated, risk-free setting. The Cyber Range platform enables organizations to anticipate and be best prepared for cyber challenges, meaning their cyber capabilities are primed when the need arises. From the ever-evolving landscape of attacks to the complexities of modern cybersecurity challenges, CybExer is the trusted partner in building cyber resilience for businesses. CybExer believes in the pursuit of cyber excellence as the ultimate solution to dealing with today’s dynamic cyber threat landscape. The company is dedicated to helping organizations not just survive but thrive, at a time when staying one step ahead is the key to security posture and success.
One of the leading Estonian defence and security companies, it focuses on developing and integrating autonomous and automated surveillance solutions, mainly for homeland security and defence, offering unique and patented solutions.
The main products are SURVEILSPIRE, a mobile autonomous situational awareness system; vehicle-based surveillance system CAIMAN, cutting-edge AI-powered C2ISR software that enables fully autonomous operations with automated video surveillance for area scanning, threat detection, classification, and verification with visual operator situational awareness; and EIRSHIELD for air defence and C-UAS with multiple effectors.
COOPERATION INTERESTS: Wxport of CUAS, surveillance and USV systems to Denmark. Joint-projects and -products for Ukraine.
03 Sep 2024
Kielce, Poland