#Latvia

A French Rafale fighter jet on NATO Baltic Air Police mission shot down an unidentified drone that entered Latvian airspace from Russia, highlighting spill-over concerns from the war in Ukraine.

Latvia says it will send mobile drone-interceptor units to its border with Russia after a series of incursions highlighted low-altitude air defense gaps in the Baltics.

During Exercise Crystal Arrow in Latvia, operators testing unmanned ground vehicles reported that dense forest cover repeatedly disrupted communications, including Starlink-based links.

Latvia has signed the Artemis Accords, becoming the 62nd country in the framework and the third to join this year, in a move that expands the diplomatic coalition around NASA’s lunar exploration plans and future cooper