The Latvian National Armed Forces (NBS) have announced that fighter jets participating in NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission shot down a foreign unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in Latvian airspace over the Latgale region after it entered Latvia as a result of Russian electronic warfare activities. At the same time, the National Armed Forces reported that […]
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Ukraine is having to conserve its limited air defense missiles and has increasingly relied on its homegrown electronic warfare system, Lima, to deflect Russian drones and missiles, writes Politico. One of the developers of Lima told Politico how the system works, which jams the navigation systems of missiles and drones. Unlike traditional air defense systems […]
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Latvia’s defense sector is not prepared to force down or shoot down foreign drones, former commander of the National Armed Forces of Latvia (NBS) and former Air Force commander Juris Maklakovs told the LETA news agency while commenting on the recent drone incidents in Latgale. Maklakovs emphasized that the war in Ukraine has now entered […]
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Latvia must urgently modernize its defense capabilities along the eastern border, particularly by developing anti-drone systems, Ainars Latkovskis of New Unity, chairman of the National Security Committee of the Latvian Saeima (NDK), told journalists on Thursday. He stated that following the incident near the eastern border, detailed information about the course of events had been […]
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A drone that crashed and exploded in Lithuania, near the border with Belarus, most likely belongs to the Ukrainians and was diverted from its course due to electronic warfare. A video taken by a local resident showed an explosion, preceded by the hum of an engine in the dark, which is usually associated with drones. […]
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The Estonian Air Force, in cooperation with the US Army, tested a new system to protect against drone attacks in Ida-Viru County during the Digital Shield exercise, ERR News reports. The nearly week-long exercise tested both existing and newly acquired defense systems. All of them have proven themselves in combat situations in Ukraine. The aim […]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the 5th of March that Ukraine was ready to provide support in the fight against Iranian drones that threaten targets in the Middle East, Reuters reports. After the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on the 28th of February, Iran responded by attacking American targets in neighboring […]
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