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Counter-UAS
NATO and Ukrainian Troops Link Sensors and Shooters to Test Networked Counter-Drone Defense in Baltic Trust
Roughly 650 personnel from 24 nations, including Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized Brigade, tested a distributed counter-UAS network in Latvia — sharing sensor and command data across formations in the latest round of NATO's Layered Counter-UAS Initiative.
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Counter-UAS
NATO's Fourth Romania Drone Shootdown of 2026: Spanish F-18 Downs Suspected Russian UAV
A Spanish EF-18M flying NATO's eAP-72 mission shot down a suspected Russian drone over Romania near the Moldova border before dawn on August 16 — the fourth such shootdown over Romanian territory this year.
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Counter-UAS
NATO Jets Down Drones Over Latvia and Romania in 48-Hour Span
Italian Eurofighters over Latvia and a Spanish F-18 over Romania shot down unidentified drones on consecutive nights, with neither government able to say where the aircraft came from.
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Counter-UAS
Inside Baltic Trust: NATO Runs Drone-Swarm and Kill-Chain Drills in Latvia
NATO's BATT26 exercise is putting roughly 650 troops and technical specialists from allied and partner nations through two weeks of live UAS and counter-UAS drills at Latvia's Sēlija range.
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Defense & Combat
Cutting Out the Ground Station: P-8 Crews Task MQ-4C Triton Drones Directly in First Automated Navy MUM-T Demo
In a Boeing/Northrop Grumman demo, a P-8A Poseidon crew tasked an MQ-4C Triton via machine-readable UCI messages — the drone planned its own transit, worked its sensors, processed data with AI and reported back over satellite relay, no ground control station required.
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Defense & Combat
Romania Downs String of Suspected Russian Drones in Three-Day NATO Airspace Breach
Romania scrambled F-16s and NATO Eurofighters to shoot down at least three suspected Russian Shahed-type drones over three straight days, prompting a diplomatic expulsion and a stark 2026 tally: 19 incursions and counting.
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Counter-UAS
Romania Downs Three Drones in Three Days, Its First Shootdowns Since 2022
Over July 24-26, 2026, Romania destroyed three drones that breached its airspace on consecutive days - its first successful intercepts since Russia's 2022 invasion, enabled by a 2025 law authorizing engagement of trespassing UAS.
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Tech & Builds
No Satellites, No Pilot, No Map: Inside NATO's SAPIENCE Finale for Autonomous Search-and-Rescue Drones
At Unmanned Valley in the Netherlands, four university teams flew multi-drone systems through an indoor-outdoor disaster zone with satellite positioning switched off — the third and final round of NATO's SAPIENCE competition, won by City St George's, University of London.
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Defense & Combat
China's Type 076 'Sichuan' Becomes the World's First Amphibious Assault Ship to Catapult-Launch Combat Drones
New close-up footage of China's first Type 076, Sichuan, confirms an electromagnetic catapult and arresting gear tuned for fixed-wing UAVs — a drone-carrier capability no U.S. or NATO amphibious ship currently fields.
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Defense & Combat
MALE and HALE UAV Deliveries in 2026: Who's Shipping What
A reference guide to medium- and high-altitude long-endurance drone deliveries in 2026: MQ-9B handovers across Europe and Asia, NATO's Triton letter of intent, Baykar's Akinci production surge, China's Wing Loong assembly lines, Israel's Heron Mk II squadron, and the Eurodrone that still isn't shipping.
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Defense & Combat
NATO Allies Sign Letter of Intent for Up to Five MQ-4C Triton Drones to Watch the High North
Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Norway signed a letter of intent in Ankara to jointly buy up to five Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton drones, extending NATO's high-altitude maritime surveillance net over the Atlantic, Baltic, and Arctic approaches.
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Counter-UAS
NATO Launches $40 Billion 'Drone Edge' Counter-UAS Initiative at Ankara Summit
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte unveiled a five-year, $40 billion Drone Edge initiative for uncrewed and counter-uncrewed systems, headlining more than EUR 50 billion in procurement deals announced at the Ankara summit.
