One of the most famous startups in the development of unmanned ground vehicles Milrem Robotics, which was founded in 2013 and became famous thanks to the THeMIS platform, is now owned by the EDGE defense conglomerate from the United Arab Emirates.
The amount of the deal is not disclosed, as Breaking Defense notes, but EDGE has already reported that it is the largest investment in the Estonian defense industry of all time. Defense Express notes that in 2021, 25% of the company was acquired by the German Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and its share remains unchanged.
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But in general, such an agreement can be classified as an unexpected one, since the company actively fulfilled NATO countries orders. In particular, THeMIS is already in service with Estonia, the Netherlands and Spain, and is also being supplied to Ukraine.
There is also information about a contract for the supply of this platform to France, Norway, Great Britain and the United States.
The company is also developing a more powerful unmanned ground vehicle, actually the Type-X RCV robo-tank. It’s a promising 12-ton machine capable of taking on the full-fledged role of a tank on the battlefield.
Only time will tell how much this takeover will affect the Western prospects of these and other developments. Although Defense Express notes that Milrem Robotics itself does not change its location. At the same time, certain opportunities are opening up for the countries of the Middle East regarding a whole constellation of high-tech weapons.
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