Origin Robotics and Anduril will test the BLAZE drone interceptor on Anduril's Lattice software in Latvia. The work is self-funded, and no date is set. Latvia already buys BLAZE under a multi-year framework.
BLAZE is the order-first entry in Europe's counter-drone wave — a radar-guided, NATO-codified interceptor drone from Latvia's Origin Robotics that flies a radar vector onto a Shahed, then finishes with AI vision. Built on a tiny ~€4M budget, it's fielded by four NATO states and picked by France.
Ukrainian long-range drones knocked off course by Russian jamming keep crossing into NATO airspace, and the Baltics want more than fighter patrols to stop them.
Russia's edge is the scale of its drone production, not its technology, Latvia's commander told the Financial Times, and Europe will not finish rearming until after the window he fears closes.