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Help us grow. Let’s help the Ukraine army to win the war.

SA VALDEF, Sihtasutus Vabaallikate demokraatia fond, or Foundation Open-Source Democracy Fund, asks for donations to help build us up necessary supply chains between the Ukraine army units and the manufacturers of non-lethal and possible lethal-help. We need to develop our…

Singapore company will help the Estonian Navy sink the enemy ships beyond the horizon by 2023.

On October 6, 2021 Estonian Navy announced singing agreement with Singapore company Proteus Advanced Systems Pte. Ltd. whose task will be to supply by 2023 the capability to sink the enemy surface vessels and targets. The decisive factor in this…

Estonian Defense Industry big player ELI mortar simulator M- GOLF.

  SA VADEF would like to thank The Dead District for tweeting about Azerbaijan Army using Estonian defense industry oldest and most influential player ELI CO2 driven mortar simulator M-GOLF, which was among the first product they developed having in…

Soomepoiss: Leo Peeter Lembaru / 1.8.1920 – 19.9.1944 / (24.y.o)

Facebook group “Eesti ajalugu” (Estonian History) mediated “Soomepoisid” (Finnish Boys) group post recently deceased soomepoiss Raul Kuutma / 3.8.1924 – 17.7.2021 / at age of 97 years. That brought up topic circulating among the history buffs of a Tartu front-line…

The Estonian Summer War of 1941.

On 3 July 1941 the active phase of Estonian Summer War of 1941 began after Stalin’s scorched earth decree and radio speech that was ordered to be conducted by the NKVD. With the operation “Barbarossa” and Stalin’s speech of 3…

Publishing House Argo – “Tossed by the Squalls”. The book about Bruno Linneberg.

  To make Bruno Linneberg’s legacy available to the general public, the publisher Argo has published a book “Tossed by the Squalls. Captain Major Bruno Linneberg. Estonian Navy Officer and his time” by Reet Naber and Arto Oll for the…

Bruno Linneberg – A little known hero of Estonian Military Intelligence.

In honour of Bruno Linneberg an exhibition in the Seaplane Harbour, in Tallinn, in cooperation between the Maritime Museum and the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) is held until the beginning of 2022. The exhibition covers successfully conducted…

Drunken and rude British NATO troops were taken off a train.

On Saturday, June 5, 2021 a group of British Army troops serving on a rotation in Estonia among the NATO contingent were taken off in Jõgeva from the midday train from Tallinn to Valka. Estonian police received a call from…

Lutsi language – a forgotten South-Estonian language island

An American with Latvian roots, Uldis Balodis, who grew up in the USA being the only person in the region who spoke a different language, shaped with that experience his future linguist profession identity and grew interest to study extinct…