An amount of 50 million euros has been approved for the project, which will be developed by the Milrem Robotics-led consortium that delivered the initial system in 2023.
A consortium of several dozen European companies and institutions, led by Milrem Robotics and including five Estonian companies, received 50 million euros in funding from the European Defense Fund at the end of April
In the latest round of applications from the European Defence Fund, sixteen international projects with the participation of Estonian ICT companies received funding, with a total of over 365 million euros allocated from the fund.
The Commission will invest close to €1 billion in 62 new EDF projects, bringing total EU funding for collaborative defence R&D to over €4 billion since 2021.
The European Commission-funded Technologies for Existing and Future Main Battle Tanks (FMBTech) project has been officially launched, Thales, which is co-ordinating the effort, announced on 22 April 2025
Under a new Regulation to stimulate defence-related investments within the EU budget proposed today by the Commission, the EU will strengthen its defence Readiness 2030 and to implement the ReArm Europe plan.
Under a European Defence Fund (EDF) initiative, Thales is to co-ordinate the European Interactive Sensor-Based Dynamic Defence Network (EISNET) consortium, involving 23 partners from industry, research centres and universities from 12 EU member states