Estonia is learning from Ukraine how to counter drones after an attack UAV slipped into its airspace recently, exposing gaps in detection and defense.
Fifteen years ago, most people knew little about drones. Today, they are shaping both battlefields and everyday life, as seen when an attack drone exploded over a field near the village of Koruste on August 24, undetected by Estonian surveillance.
Andrus padar, an expert at the Estonian Academy of Security Services’ Remote Sensing Research and Development Center, said the problem was that sensors weren’t in place along the Estonian–Latvian border, as it wasn’t considered dangerous.
“It’s still an internal EU border,” Padar said. “And we didn’t have sensors there.”
Although Ukraine’s war has highlighted drone threats, the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) first encountered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Iraq in 2004, and later in Afghanistan.
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