The companies announced the award on 16 October under the European Defence Industry Programme’s Industrial Reinforcement Actions. Their project was one of eight selected from 83 proposals submitted from 23 EU member states and Norway.
Odin Defence will establish production at Estonia’s Ermistu Defence Industry Park through RagnaRasa. The award came under the programme’s first call for energetic components.
“RagnaRasa is the next step in building our industrial capacity and regional defence capability, connecting essential components manufacturing in Estonia with final product assembly, testing and qualification in Lithuania,” said Tomas Milašauskas, RSI Europe’s chief executive and co-founder. The project brings together RSI Europe’s defence technology business and Odin Defence’s energetic materials manufacturing expertise.
Headquartered in Lithuania, RSI Europe develops and manufactures FPV drone systems, remote-initiation technologies and warheads. It has operations in Germany, Ukraine and Poland.
The company also provides operator training, tactical doctrine development and battlefield systems integration for Ukrainian, NATO and allied armed forces. Estonia-based Odin Defence was founded by British military engineering expert Lee Thornhill.
