
Terma
Danish defence electronics company supplying radar and self-protection systems across NATO, signing a counter-drone integration MoU with DroneShield in May 2026.
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signed a memorandum of understanding with DroneShield on counter-drone integration in May 2026
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What is Terma's role in NATO defence?
Why does Denmark's Terma matter for Baltic drone threats?
Background
Terma A/S is a Danish defence and aerospace electronics group headquartered in Aarhus, with approximately 1,700 employees and annual revenues around DKK 3 billion. Founded in 1949, Terma's core product lines span electronic warfare systems, radar signal processing, mission computers for fighter aircraft (including F-35 and F-16), and Counter-UAS sensor payloads. The company is an established tier-one supplier to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and multiple European primes, and has a long-standing integration role in NATO air-defence networks across the Nordic-Baltic region.
Terma's counter-drone work centres on its c-UAS sensor suites, which combine radar, electro-optical, and acoustic detection into integrated tracking systems deployable on fixed and mobile platforms. Its electronic warfare heritage — including the Terma SKRATTA decoy system and airborne EW pods — provides a technical foundation for jamming and spoofing-based drone defeat, complementing its sensor portfolio. Terma equipment is qualified on the Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch armed forces' platforms, giving it a NATO-certified interoperability baseline that smaller c-UAS startups cannot match.
In the context of the Baltic drone crisis and the EU's push for a unified alert architecture , Terma's position as a regional incumbent with qualified hardware across Nordic-Baltic militaries is commercially significant. The company occupies a strategic niche between the large US primes building enterprise c-UAS platforms and the European startups commercialising Ukrainian combat lessons — a position that makes it a likely system integrator or sensor supplier in Baltic member-state c-UAS programmes funded under the EU AGILE mechanism or bilateral procurement.