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Estonian firms break record for domestic defense tender deal value

Two Estonian firms have been granted the tender to repoint Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) tracked armored vehicles for several different purposes, in the largest defense contract to be awarded to an Estonian firm by the Estonian state itself. AS Ühenenud Depood and Scania Eesti AS have won the €29.8-million contract, BNS reports, awarded by the Center for Defense Investment (RKK). Thirty-seven Swedish-made Combat Vehicle 90 (CV90) tracked military vehicles are to be reconfigured to tasks focusing on combat engineer roles, anti-tank roles and several other uses, and will fit out the EDF s 1st Infantry Brigade s Scouts Battalion (Scoutspataljon). The development also brings to a close a process which has gone on for several years, BNS reports.

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EDF personnel get ice hole escape drills practice in

EDF personnel get ice hole escape drills practice

Recruits from the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) Scouts Battalion have been taking advantage of the recent cold spell to get in some ice breaking drills. Over 200 members have taken part in the exercise, which involves leaping into the freezing water, exposed by a hole cut into the ice, and negotiating their way across to the other side before extricating themselves, all under the watchful eye of instructors. Ice breaking drills instructor 2Lt Oliver Jõesaar says that initial reactions from first-timers can involve panic. 2Lt Jõesaar said, via an EDF press release, that: This is a controlled environment, and the experience gain from instructors and in the presence of medical personnel is useful not only in service life but also on civvy street.