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Latvia moves to buy Anduril’s Barracuda cruise missile for long-range strike

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs says Riga is working to acquire Anduril’s Barracuda long-range cruise missiles after visiting the U.S. defense company and meeting founder Palmer Luckey. The proposed deal would significantly extend Latvia’s precision-strike reach as NATO’s eastern flank expands conventional long-range capabilities.

Discovered 2026-09-25T03:45:41.400046-07:00 | 2026-09-25T03:45:41.400046-07:00

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The proposed acquisition would give Latvia a substantially longer-range precision-strike capability, changing the scale of its conventional deterrence options.
The move reflects broader NATO eastern-flank efforts to expand conventional long-range strike capacity and could create demand for additional missile procurement, integration and support. (No directly relevant previous clusters were provided.)

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The War Zone defence-blog.com