UK–Estonia Team Rolls Out Low-Cost Naval System to Stop Drone Swarms
In the face of the explosive growth of drones in modern warfare, particularly low-cost one-way attack (kamikaze) drones, a significant industrial partnership has emerged between… 
In the face of the explosive growth of drones in modern warfare, particularly low-cost one-way attack (kamikaze) drones, a significant industrial partnership has emerged between the United Kingdom and Estonia. On January 7, 2026, British defense giant Babcock International Group and Estonian startup Frankenburg Technologies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly explore and develop a new, affordable maritime counter-drone air defense system.
This collaboration directly responds to the dramatic rise in asymmetric attacks using inexpensive, hard-to-detect unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as vividly demonstrated in conflicts like Ukraine and Houthi operations…
