NATO’s nearly two-week experimentation programme in Latvia tested how national systems could work together in communications, counter-drone defence and targeting. Military Committee chair Giuseppe Cavo Dragone attended the closing visitor event. The alliance has identified assessment of findings and remaining challenges as its next step, while the chair called for connected systems against drone swarms.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conducted nearly two weeks of trials in Latvia to test how equipment from different countries could work together. The NATO Federated Unified Sensing and Effects event, known as FUSE, brought communications, counter-drone defence and targeting into a linked experimentation programme. Allied military operators worked alongside defence companies.[1], [2]
Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of NATO’s Military Committee, attended the senior visitors’ event on 30 October. He said experience in Ukraine had compressed adaptation cycles from years to weeks. He expressed an expectation that the following year several countries’ systems would link sensors to weapons against drone swarms and be fielded with units on the alliance’s eastern flank.[1]
NATO Allied Command Transformation, the command responsible for developing future military capabilities, led the experimentation. NATO identified the next phase as reviewing findings, identifying unresolved challenges and agreeing further steps with national authorities, operators and industry. Cavo Dragone also called for military advice that could align political decisions and national investments. Final trial results were not published in the announcement.[1]
