Estonia Is Writing Its Own Playbook to Build a Defense Industry
From a control tower overlooking a muddy field in central Estonia, Maido Ruusmann and a pair of local investors watched as a meter-long spy drone was launched into the air...
By Ott Tammik · Bloomberg
From a control tower overlooking a muddy field in central Estonia, Maido Ruusmann and a pair of local investors watched as a meter-long spy drone was launched into the air using a giant elastic band. It climbed to a height of a kilometer and traced circles in the sky, sending data and images back to about a dozen people huddled around monitors on the ground below.