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.
A maritime drone of the type Ukraine uses against Russia's Black Sea Fleet blew up inside Romania's largest port during inspection, no casualties, pulling NATO soil into the Black Sea drone war.
The standard U.S. belt-fed 40 mm automatic grenade launcher — a crew-served, blowback weapon that delivers high-velocity grenade fire against personnel and light armor out to 2,200 m, and has served in every major U.S. deployment since the Gulf War.
Austria's polymer-frame, striker-fired service pistol — the ubiquitous 9×19mm sidearm of NATO militaries and law enforcement worldwide, in continuous production since 1982.
The US military's iconic 9mm service pistol from 1985 to 2017 — a double-action hammer-fired design that defined the NATO sidearm era and remains in wide legacy and allied service.
The L85A2 (SA80) is the British armed forces’ standard bullpup assault rifle — a 5.56×45mm NATO weapon with a short-stroke piston, 518 mm barrel, and a tumultuous early service life redeemed by a Heckler & Koch mid-life upgrade.
Italy's sole domestic third-generation main battle tank — a 54-tonne, 120 mm smoothbore platform now undergoing a C2/AMV upgrade to address obsolescence and low fleet availability.
Pan-European 4.5-generation canard-delta multirole fighter — the air superiority and strike backbone of four NATO air forces, in service since 2003.
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.
Gen. Alexus Grynkewich's June 3 statement names manned and unmanned aircraft plus naval vessels as the first NATO categories Europe and Canada can fill.
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.