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Estonia Plans Ukraine-Inspired Air Raid Alert App to Let Civilians Track Drones
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Estonia plans to develop a Ukrainian-inspired air raid alert application within six months, allowing residents to track drone movements and assess threats in their area, Estonian public broadcaster ERR reported on November 13.
Estonian Defense Minister Martin Herem explained that the system would supplement traditional sirens and emergency notifications with visual information showing the direction of approaching aerial threats.
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“We should be able to provide every resident with a more detailed picture,” Herem stated, adding that access to such information could help reduce public anxiety.
Estonia is drawing on Ukraine’s experience in protecting civilians from Russian drone and missile attacks. Ukrainian authorities have begun publicly sharing airspace information, enabling developers to create applications that track aerial threats.
According to Dmytro Zhmailo, head of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, Ukraine already issues air raid alerts at the district level and is working to make them more geographically precise.
Estonian defense ministry adviser Mati Tikerpuu confirmed that funding is available, although the application’s final cost and technical specifications remain undetermined. Estonia may also release airspace data to independent software developers.
Separately, Estonia expects to launch its cell broadcast emergency warning system in early 2027. The technology will deliver geographically targeted alerts within seconds and can override mobile phones’ sound settings when necessary.
Ukrainian companies Ajax Systems and Stfalcon launched the Air Alert app on March 1, 2022, with support from Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation. Initially covering five regions, the app expanded nationwide within a month, later adding interactive threat maps, district-level alerts, and warnings of artillery, chemical, and radiation threats.
By 2025, the app had surpassed 46 million downloads and reached 6.6 million active users.
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Estonia's reliance on Ukrainian expertise extends well beyond civilian alert systems. On October 9, Herem met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv to discuss additional funding for air defense procurement and new contributions to the PURL initiative , which supplies Ukraine with anti-ballistic interceptors.
The talks also covered the recently signed Drone Deal, which enables Ukraine to export battlefield-tested defense technologies to Estonia while securing financial resources for Kyiv. Both sides agreed that their teams would work promptly to assemble the export package.
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