Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
Surprise-surprise – Estonia, member of Nato, with the population of only 1,4 million, has its own tiny defence industry. The flagship inventor there is ELI – market leader in The Baltics to develop and produce simulators and other training systems for police and defence forces. Simulators, meaning virtual battlegrounds is one thing ELI knows about. [...]
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23 Jul 2008Rantelon, a spin-off company from Tallinn University of Technology, provided Estonian soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with radio scrambler devices or jammers. Now the enterprise is looking to get its foot in the US defense industry’s door. The owners of Rantelon, engineers Andres Taklaja and Priit Kinks, can spend hours talking about various antennas, amplifiers [...]