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A $10,000 Gerbera Exposes the Mediterranean Drone-Defense Gap
France and Italy deny receiving the warning. Russia has already demonstrated the aircraft, ship launch and disruption model that make the scenario credible.
Lithuania's RSI Europe and Estonia's Odin Defence won €29.5 million from the EU to make loitering-munition warheads. RSI's new plant is due to break ground in early 2027.
France and Italy deny receiving the warning. Russia has already demonstrated the aircraft, ship launch and disruption model that make the scenario credible.
NATO's first drone shootdown over Lithuania came from Baltic Air Policing fighters, five months after Lithuania bought 48 interceptors priced near $15,000 a shot for exactly this job.
Lithuania says the next US troop rotation is "under review," leaving it without an American armored battalion for the first time since 2020, and pushing the Baltic deterrence burden, and the money, onto Europe.