Estonian Defense Industry To Showcase Military Products In UMEX-2016

Estonian Eli, Defendec and Milrem will showcase military products at UMEX exhibition in Abu Dhabi later this week.

Defendec will be showcasing an autonomous and fully automated land border monitoring system Smartdec at the exhibition.

“It is a cohesive border monitoring system which provides a significantly improved awareness of the situation. The concept we have designed is centred around battery-powered radio sensors that can be linked to drones, unmanned vehicles, camera towers and radars,” Jaanus Tamm, CEO of Defendec was quoted as saying Estonian defense ministry in a release Monday.

According to Gerry Saarep, sales manager for Eli, during the previous fairs at UAB they have showcased their pop-up targets HARDY and moving target HARDY M, unmanned aerial system SWAN, recoil simulators, and a UAV catapult launcher. This time Eli is visiting UMEX with their ELIX-XL multirotor drone sets.

According to Kuldar Väärsi, Chairman of the Board of Milrem, the unmanned tracked vehicle developed by the company is unique in the world due to its fully modular design and the resulting wide range of possible applications. Unlike the existing unmanned vehicles which are intended for a single purpose.