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Italian Eurofighters flying NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission shot down an explosive-laden drone that crossed into Lithuania from Belarus, the first such intercept in Lithuanian airspace and the second Baltic shootdown in 30 days.
Read the story →A 161-drone barrage mixing Shaheds, jet-powered variants, Gerbera decoys and a loitering S8000 Banderol struck nine Ukrainian oblasts overnight September 11, knocking out power and hitting a chemical plant deep inside Russia in return.
Seattle-area radar maker Echodyne is weighing a European production line as NATO's counter-drone spending surges, just as Norway's Kongsberg picks its MESA radar to give PROTECTOR remote weapon stations real-time drone tracking.
Hanwha unveiled a prototype 50kW laser mounted on its Tigon 8x8 armored vehicle at MSPO 2026, targeting NATO's eastern flank with a $1.50-per-shot counter-drone weapon and 2027 serial production.
Polish manufacturer WB Group unveiled the jet-powered Warmate 30 at MSPO 2026, a Gladius 2 loitering strike drone claiming a 250km reach and GPS-denied guidance — a sharp break from the rotary and piston Warmate munitions that preceded it.
Five weeks after the Leipzig airport drone-bomb attempt, Germany rolled out counter-drone units in nine cities and a law letting utilities actively repel drones, while Russia expelled German diplomats and shut the St. Petersburg consulate.
Berlin has formally attributed the August 4 explosive drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport to Russia, closing Moscow's Bonn consulate and drawing NATO and EU statements of solidarity.
Saab UK delivered Giraffe 1X counter-drone radars to the RAF on September 2, 2026 under an urgent operational requirement, its second UK-linked Giraffe 1X order this year after a £24 million NSATU-funded buy for Ukraine.
Tampere-based Insta Group signed a €14M multi-year deal to supply domestically built FPV attack/recon drones to the Finnish Defence Forces, with training rolling out to every garrison nationwide.
US Army Green Berets put Polish special forces through a new Ukraine-inspired drone infiltration exercise in Bavaria — the first time any NATO ally besides the US has run the drill, with plans to scale it across the alliance.
The US has cleared a $364 million sale of 5,031 APKWS II laser-guided rocket kits to Italy, arming Eurofighter Typhoons with a sub-$120,000 interceptor for the drone threat that costly air-to-air missiles were never built to answer.
Finnish defense manufacturer Patria signed a letter of intent with Ukraine's General Cherry to co-develop and produce battle-proven FPV-strike and interceptor drones in Finland, with Janes reporting the Bullet and Air Speed UAVs among the models planned for local manufacture.
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