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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.
Read the story →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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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