Estonia has taken its first major step toward insulating its sovereign airspace from cross-border aerial incursions, activating its initial cluster of stationary drone detection and monitoring systems along its southeastern frontier, ERR reported. The technical deployment represents the opening phase of a multi-stage national defense initiative aimed at erecting a comprehensive surveillance umbrella capable of tracking low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in real time.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Building the nationwide anti-drone shield The newly acquired electronic monitoring devices have been permanently installed and are fully operational across three critical sectors of the land border. According to a press release issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Estonian authorities plan to expand the hardware array to cover all remaining sections of the country’s land borders before the end of the year. Estonian Interior Minister Igor Taro emphasized that the successful activation of the initial sectors validates months of intensive logistical planning and risk assessments. “The first devices are installed and working,” Minister Taro stated. “Of course, this is only the beginning: we are moving toward creating a drone network that will cover all of Estonia, but this step shows that the previous preparatory work has borne fruit. Recent drone incidents show that we very realistically assessed the risks when planning our capabilities.”