NATO plans to expand use of unmanned systems to protect the Baltic Sea UK Defence Journal the website reported.
According to the report, Task Force X BalticThe next steps will be formalized in a new letter of intent signed by eight participating countries. According to NATO, the program marks a real transition from innovation testing to operational introduction.
“At the 2025 NATO Summit, allied governments agreed to significantly increase defense spending to meet new ambitious defense goals.” Nikolaos Loutas NATO’s Director of Defense Industry, Innovation and Weapons Sector spoke at NATO Headquarters.
According to him, they also supported “a rapid adoption plan to accelerate the pace of technology adoption to achieve this goal.”
The plan has been described as a mechanism to integrate innovation into defense planning to address urgent operational needs for new effective technologies.
“This plan seeks to integrate NATO’s innovative efforts into defense planning and capability development to meet the innovative and effective technological products our forces need,” Routas said.
He added that the allies also committed to taking steps to reduce the risks of new products, such as sharing best practices, accelerating integration through new adoption pathways and experimentation.
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Rawtas is also Task Force X Baltic He noted that the initiative is one of the practical mechanisms to make this possible. “One way to move in this direction is to Task Force X Baltic The rescue reached its second important milestone today. A letter of intent has been signed for the second phase.”
“Task Force X BalticThe first phase of , demonstrated that allied navies and armies can work closely with industry to provide persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance from ground to space, quickly, at scale and in a more accessible manner,” added Routas.
NATO officials said that in the second phase, the eight allies will collaborate on the rapid acquisition of multi-domain capabilities leveraging technology for maritime operations. These countries are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden.
Task Force X BalticWith its second phase now formalized, NATO is positioning the program as a model for wider adoption, saying lessons learned from the Baltic Cable incident are increasing the drive to integrate commercial unmanned technology into NATO’s overall capabilities.
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