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Products & Solutions
Ghost Dragon ISR
Tactical ISR quadcopter with a thermal and visual-light camera and jamming-resistant radio. Features wide frequency-band hopping radio for resilience against electronic warfare, a narrow-angle thermal camera enabling operation at higher altitudes, georeferenced video output and a GNSS-loss recovery mode that autonomously returns the drone to the pilot if both satellite navigation and datalink are simultaneously lost. Supports a wired antenna extension up to 100 metres from the pilot.
PARM aerial target quadcopter
Cost-effective quadcopter aerial target for counter-drone drills and live-fire training with heavy machine guns and autocannons. One ground control station operates any number of PARM drones, with new drone sets added without requiring additional control hardware. Can be fitted with a video camera and used with FPV goggles to simulate drone warfare scenarios during military exercises.
DART fixed-wing aerial target
High-speed fixed-wing aerial target for training with heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft cannons and air defence missiles. Flies at double the speed of conventional glider-type targets with high wind resistance, launches without a catapult and accepts payloads including IR flares and smoke generators. A VTOL variant is available.
DART-R flying wing
Long-range aerial target decoy with configurable radar signature. Flies up to 200 km/h, reaches 100 km on a one-way mission and launches without a catapult. Default radar footprint is very low, but the payload bay accepts passive or active radar reflectors in X or S band, smoke generators, IR flares or missed-distance indicators, allowing simulation of a range of aerial threats.
About
KrattWorks is an Estonian drone manufacturer headquartered in Tallinn that builds high-performance UAVs for military and defence customers. The company started in the rescue and public safety space before pivoting fully to defence in 2022, growing fivefold in turnover that year as European demand for drone technology accelerated.
Offices
Tallinn, EstoniaBacked by
Taavi KotkaJohn LonghurstIvo MägiAgmisESA BIC Estonia
Customers & Partners
Estonian Defence ForcesUkrainian Armed ForcesAgmis (Lithuania) — machine vision algorithm developmentGIM Robotics (Finland) — GNSS-denied navigation, Project BadB consortiumKappaZeta (Estonia) — satellite data and AI, Project BadB consortiumRigr AI (Ireland) — defence AI software, Project BadB consortiumDefSecIntel — SurveilSPIRE mobile surveillance platform with integrated KrattWorks drone nest
Timeline
2024
Led the Project BadB consortium, which secured €6 million from the European Defence Fund to develop GNSS-free navigation for unmanned land and aerial vehicles.
2022
Signed a 7-year, €15 million contract with the Estonian Centre for Defence Investment to supply aerial target drones to the Estonian Defence Forces.
2022
Closed seed round with investors including Taavi Kotka, John Longhurst and Ivo Mägi; reported 5x revenue growth for the year.
2021
Accepted into the ESA Business Incubation Centre Estonia programme and reached the semi-finals of the My Galileo Drone competition.
2019
Won the Prototron innovation competition in Estonia, an early milestone for the company's drone technology.
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Products & Solutions
Ghost Dragon ISR
Tactical ISR quadcopter with a thermal and visual-light camera and jamming-resistant radio. Features wide frequency-band hopping radio for resilience against electronic warfare, a narrow-angle thermal camera enabling operation at higher altitudes, georeferenced video output and a GNSS-loss recovery mode that autonomously returns the drone to the pilot if both satellite navigation and datalink are simultaneously lost. Supports a wired antenna extension up to 100 metres from the pilot.
PARM aerial target quadcopter
Cost-effective quadcopter aerial target for counter-drone drills and live-fire training with heavy machine guns and autocannons. One ground control station operates any number of PARM drones, with new drone sets added without requiring additional control hardware. Can be fitted with a video camera and used with FPV goggles to simulate drone warfare scenarios during military exercises.
DART fixed-wing aerial target
High-speed fixed-wing aerial target for training with heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft cannons and air defence missiles. Flies at double the speed of conventional glider-type targets with high wind resistance, launches without a catapult and accepts payloads including IR flares and smoke generators. A VTOL variant is available.
DART-R flying wing
Long-range aerial target decoy with configurable radar signature. Flies up to 200 km/h, reaches 100 km on a one-way mission and launches without a catapult. Default radar footprint is very low, but the payload bay accepts passive or active radar reflectors in X or S band, smoke generators, IR flares or missed-distance indicators, allowing simulation of a range of aerial threats.
Open Positions (0)
No positions available
KrattWorks doesn't have any open positions at the moment.
About
KrattWorks is an Estonian drone manufacturer headquartered in Tallinn that builds high-performance UAVs for military and defence customers. The company started in the rescue and public safety space before pivoting fully to defence in 2022, growing fivefold in turnover that year as European demand for drone technology accelerated.
Offices
Tallinn, EstoniaBacked by
Taavi KotkaJohn LonghurstIvo MägiAgmisESA BIC Estonia
Customers & Partners
Estonian Defence ForcesUkrainian Armed ForcesAgmis (Lithuania) — machine vision algorithm developmentGIM Robotics (Finland) — GNSS-denied navigation, Project BadB consortiumKappaZeta (Estonia) — satellite data and AI, Project BadB consortiumRigr AI (Ireland) — defence AI software, Project BadB consortiumDefSecIntel — SurveilSPIRE mobile surveillance platform with integrated KrattWorks drone nest
Timeline
2024
Led the Project BadB consortium, which secured €6 million from the European Defence Fund to develop GNSS-free navigation for unmanned land and aerial vehicles.
2022
Signed a 7-year, €15 million contract with the Estonian Centre for Defence Investment to supply aerial target drones to the Estonian Defence Forces.
2022
Closed seed round with investors including Taavi Kotka, John Longhurst and Ivo Mägi; reported 5x revenue growth for the year.
2021
Accepted into the ESA Business Incubation Centre Estonia programme and reached the semi-finals of the My Galileo Drone competition.
2019
Won the Prototron innovation competition in Estonia, an early milestone for the company's drone technology.
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