Estonian Defence Company to Start Testing its Anti-Aircraft Missiles in Ukraine in 2025
Estonian defence company Frankenburg Technologies will start testing its own anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine next year.
This was announced by the company's CEO Kusti Salm in an interview with ERR.
According to Salm, this technology is promising, so the company will start testing it in Ukraine next year. According to him, the agreement to conduct the trials has already been signed, and the company's technology has attracted wide attention.
‘The technology is promising, and we will start testing it in Ukraine next year,’ he stressed.
According to the broadcaster, this is evidenced by a recent report in Bloomberg, in which Frankenburg was named among the four leading high-tech defence startups in Europe.
According to Frankenburg's website, the company aims to revolutionise missile guidance systems using an artificial intelligence-based situational awareness programme.
Bloomberg notes that Salm, who until recently served as secretary of the Estonian Ministry of Defence, brought four generals of special forces to the company. It is known that the former head of the Defence Forces, Martin Herem, and Veiko-Vello Palm, an Estonian division commander and former chief of staff, joined the company from Estonia.
In early November 2024, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence announced that Ukraine would receive air defence missiles from Estonian defence company Frankenburg Technology for testing by the end of 2024.
On 16 November, the Estonian government supported Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur's proposal to send Ukraine a new military aid package.