Estonia’s MoD is funding Teletactica’s EW-resistant drone communications — a Ukrainian-Estonian technology already battle-tested in real conditions.
Estonian drone industry keep producing new advances. Teletactica, a Ukrainian-Estonian defence startup that raised $1.5M last year, has secured a contract from Estonia’s Ministry of Defence to develop communications systems for drones that can withstand electronic warfare, reports Calibre Defence.
The 18-month R&D programme will focus on command and data links for drones and other robotic systems operating in contested electromagnetic environments. Prototypes will be tested with partners across Estonia and the Baltics under operationally realistic conditions.
The contract builds directly on Teletactica’s battlefield experience in Ukraine, where the team developed a broader ecosystem of communication products covering drone control and video stream transmission. Compatible with most UAV platforms, these solutions have already seen active use in real operational conditions — giving a rare advantage over competitors who have yet to test their technology under fire. “That Ukrainian battlefield context is exactly what we’re bringing into this 18-month R&D programme with Estonia,” the company wrote on LinkedIn.
New kind of drone warfare
The experience has now fed into a new product: a tactical communications system hardened against electronic interference and equipped with expanded command-and-control (C2) capabilities for unmanned platforms. The urgency is clear, as the threats of the modern conflicts multiply — there are incidents of jamming satellite navigation across wide areas and, in some cases, hijacking FPV drone feeds by beaming false video directly to operators’ goggles.
To counter these threats, Teletactica’s solution combines three technologies: frequency-hopping, which rapidly shifts signals across the spectrum to resist jamming; resilient synchronisation, which keeps encrypted radio networks in time even when GPS is unavailable (loss of timing can cause a network to break down within roughly 15 minutes); and MANET mesh networking, which automatically reroutes data if individual nodes are targeted or go offline.
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