Origin Robotics, a Latvian defense-tech startup, and Estonia’s Defsecintel Solutions have formalized a memorandum of understanding to support the EU’s ambitious “drone wall” initiative, aiming to stem repeated Russian airspace violations along Europe’s eastern border.
Unveiled during Estonian Defence Week, the partnership will marry Defsecintel’s Eirshield mobile counter-UAS system with Origin’s autonomous interceptor drone, Blaze.
The goal: to offer governments and security agencies a turnkey, mobile, and cost-effective solution capable of countering a broad spectrum of drone threats in real operational environments.
Eirshield Counter-Drone System
Eirshield functions as an AI-assisted ultra-short-range air defence platform, engineered to defend against both multi-rotor and fixed-wing UAVs. Proven in Ukraine, the system is mobile and all-terrain, combining radar (detection up to 8 km), RF sensors, and EO/IR cameras to detect, verify, and track aerial threats. Once verified, the system uses AI-enabled algorithms to jam radio and GNSS links. Eirshield is compatible with both soft-kill (interceptor drones) and hard-kill effectors (guns, missiles).
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Blaze Interceptor
The Blaze interceptor is designed for man-portable, high-speed engagement of UAVs that evade traditional defences. With embedded AI and computer vision, it autonomously tracks and locks onto high-velocity targets—such as loitering munitions—and neutralizes them either by direct strike or by detonating a fragmentation warhead near the target. Operators maintain ultimate control, with the ability to abort, redirect, or trigger self-destruct. Blaze’s transport case doubles as a launch and charging platform, enabling tool-free deployment: flight-ready in under 10 minutes, first launch in under 5 minutes, and subsequent launches in under 1 minute.
