Estonia is bringing 15 DefenceTech firms to Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, including combat-tested counter-drone systems, innovative interceptors to and NVIDIA-powered edge AI, showing its exporting agile, dual-use defence ecosystem.
Estonia is sending a 15-strong contingent to Eurosatory 2026, the biennial land and air defence show held in Paris from 15 to 19 June, under a joint national stand organised by Trade with Estonia. The line-up is a fair snapshot of how a country best known for its software development prowess, has pivoted a chunk of its engineering talent into defence and dual-use technology, much of it shaped by lessons coming out of Ukraine.
The pitch from Enterpirse Estonia, which will be running the delegation, is that Estonia offers “agile, advanced defence” – firms here that can move quickly and ship combat-relevant kit faster than larger primes. The companies on show cluster into a few broad areas.
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Counter-drone and sensing
The most crowded category, reflecting where the global attention is. DefSecIntel Solutions, founded in 2018, brings EIRSHIELD, a mobile ultra-short-range counter-UAS system that pairs radar, RF sensors and an electro-optical camera with a menu of effectors – from interceptor drones to .50 calibre guns. CEO Jaanus Tamm has been blunt about its readiness, saying of the wider “Drone Wall” concept it helped launch: “This is not a roadmap or a PowerPoint.” The system won an award at Milipol Paris in late 2025 and has been tested in Latvia and Poland.
Marduk Technologies, founded in 2016 and named after the Babylonian deity, builds an optical detection tool that tracks hostile drones without emitting signals that could give away the operator’s position – a useful layer when jamming or radar alone falls short.
KrattWorks began in 2018 building AI-enabled drones for forest-fire detection and rescue, then redirected toward defence after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Its Ghost Dragon ISR drones reached Ukrainian units since 2022.
Defendec offers fully autonomous border and perimeter intrusion detection – rugged, easily camouflaged sensors with a 400-day battery life and AI alarm verification, requiring no fixed infrastructure. Co-developed with the Estonian border guard, some of its devices have been in the field for over a decade. The company says 2025 was a record year, producing 3.8 times more devices than in any previous one.
Drones, optics and effectors
Threod Systems, founded in 2012, makes unmanned aircraft, electro-optical ISR payloads and launchers for deep-strike drones, with customers in nearly 30 countries including 13 NATO members and Ukraine. Its Eos C VTOL aircraft is in service across the Baltics, Finland, Poland and beyond.
HEVI Optronics, started in 2021 by five engineers who self-funded the company and refused to bring unfinished prototypes to market, has grown into a recognised electro-optical ISR specialist feeding Europe’s drone and counter-drone supply chain.
Frankenburg Technologies is the headline-grabber. Founded in 2024 and led by former defence ministry permanent secretary Kusti Salm, it is building affordable, mass-manufacturable missile interceptors aimed squarely at Europe’s problem of countering mass drone attacks without burning through expensive missile stocks. The firm raised a €30m Series A in 2026.
Frankenburg missiles cost in the low tens of thousands of dollars and take just hours to make. Photo: Frankenburg Technologies
Edge computing and robotics
FORECR, an official NVIDIA partner, supplies ready-to-deploy Edge AI hardware – rugged, MIL-STD-certified computers and carrier boards built on NVIDIA Jetson processors. The company says France is a strategic market, and notes its technology was recently used in an Airbus test flight demonstrating AI-based target recognition for managing multiple UAVs. At Eurosatory it will showcase a new generation of edge computers built on NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor platform.
5.0 Robotics, founded in 2020, makes modular CNC machines now used by Formula 1 teams, NATO defence industries and SMEs across five continents – a dual-use capability for producing or repairing precision parts closer to the field.
Battlefield software and communications
Vegvisir, founded in 2021 by eight Estonian and Croatian founders with military backgrounds, builds a mixed-reality “operational interface” that gives armoured-vehicle crews a clear view of their surroundings – answering a problem its founders experienced first-hand inside vehicles in Afghanistan. The company has made a new product announcement ahead of the show.
Vegvisir originally set out to solve a specific problem, and built a mixed-reality system giving crews a 360° “see-through-armour” view of their surroundings.
Wayren, set up in 2020 by former cyber-defence experts who had worked on Estonia’s command-and-control systems, targets last-mile battlefield communications. In 2025 it signed a €7.9m strategic investment agreement with EFA Group.
Cyber, secure systems and energy
Cybernetica, with roots reaching back to the 1960s Institute of Cybernetics, develops mission-critical and cryptographic systems – it is one of the architects of the X-Road data-exchange backbone – and its technologies are deployed in more than 40 countries.
CybExer Technologies, founded in 2016 by a team shaped by Estonia’s 2007 cyberattacks, runs AI-driven cyber ranges and digital-twin simulations trusted by NATO and partners in over 60 countries.
Nortal builds secure digital systems for governments and defence, and was selected in 2025 as a NATO-approved supplier under the alliance’s Basic Ordering Agreement framework.
Skeleton Technologies rounds out the group as one of the most advanced scale-ups in Estonia. Founded in Tartu in 2009 by Taavi Madiberk, it has raised more than €300m and now operates as a major European energy-storage company, supplying supercapacitors and “SuperBatteries” for high-power applications.
Coordinating the effort is the Estonian Defence and Aerospace Industry Association.
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