List of equipment of the Latvian Land Forces

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List of equipment of the Latvian Land Forces

This is a list of equipment used by the Latvian Land Forces.

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LATPAT camouflage pattern and BEAR-II vest

Personal equipment

The equipment of the Latvian Land Forces troops includes:

  • LatPat, Multi-LatPat and WoodLatPat (Latvian digital camouflage uniform).
  • Norwegian BEAR-II load bearing armor system
  • Kevlar helmets
  • Night vision devices

Infantry weapons

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Model Image Origin Variant Type Caliber Details
Pistols
Glock Thumb  Austria Glock 17
Glock 19
Glock 21
Glock 26
Semi-automatic pistol 9×19mm Parabellum Standard issue pistol.[1][2][3]
Heckler & Koch P2 Thumb  Germany HK P2A1 Flare gun 26.5mm Complementary order in 2024[4]
Submachine guns
Heckler & Koch UMP Thumb  Germany UMP9 Submachine gun 9×19mm Parabellum Standard issue submachine gun.[1][3]
Heckler & Koch MP5 Thumb  West Germany MP5A3 Submachine gun 9×19mm Parabellum [3]
Heckler & Koch MP7 Thumb  Germany MP7A2 PDW

Personal defence weapon

HK 4.6×30mm [3][5]
Shotguns
Remington 870 Thumb  United States MCS Pump action shotgun 12 gauge [3]
Winchester 1300 Thumb  United States Pump action shotgun 12 gauge Is going to be replaced.[3]
Mossberg 500 Thumb  United States Pump action shotgun 12 gauge It is planned to be replaced.[3]
Assault rifles
Heckler & Koch G36 Thumb  Germany G36V
G36KV
G36KV3
Assault rifle 5.56×45mm NATO Standard issue assault rifle.[1][2][3][6] Complementary order in 2024.[4]
M16 Thumb  United States M16A1 Assault rifle 5.56×45mm NATO Used by Honour Guard, as ceremonial rifle.[7]
Precision rifles
Heckler & Koch HK417 Thumb  Germany HK417A2 Designated marksman rifle 7.62×51mm NATO [3][5]
Accuracy International Arctic Warfare Thumb  United Kingdom AW Bolt action sniper rifle 7.62×51mm NATO AW variant used to be the standard issue sniper rifle.[1]
Accuracy International AXMC Thumb  United Kingdom AXMC Bolt action sniper rifle 8.6×70mm [3]
Accuracy International AX50 Thumb  United Kingdom AX50 ELR Anti materiel sniper rifle 12.7×99mm NATO [3][5]
PGM Hécate II Thumb  France Anti materiel sniper rifle 12.7×99mm NATO Standard issue heavy sniper rifle.[1][2][3]
Barrett M107 Thumb  United States M107A1 Anti materiel sniper rifle 12.7×99mm NATO [3][5]
Machine guns
FN Minimi Thumb  Belgium Minimi Para Light machine gun 5.56×45mm NATO Standard issue light machine gun.[1][2][3]
FN MAG
Kulspruta 58
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 Sweden

FN MAG
Kulspruta 58 B
General-purpose machine gun 7.62×51mm NATO [2][3]
M2 Browning Thumb  United States

 Belgium

M2HB-QCB Heavy machine gun 12.7×99mm NATO [3][8]
Protocol service weapons
M14 Thumb  United States Battle rifle 7.62×51mm NATO Used by Honour Guard, as ceremonial rifle.[9]
Lee-Enfield Thumb  United Kingdom No.4 MkI* Bolt action rifle .303 British 120 rifles were donated by Canada. Used by Honour Guard, as ceremonial rifle.[10]
Grenade launchers
Heckler & Koch AG36 Thumb  Germany Under-barrel grenade launcher 40×46mm LV [1][3]
Milkor MGL Thumb  South Africa

 Croatia

Metallic RBG-6 Automatic grenade launcher 40×46mm LV Produced initially without license by Metallic d.o.o.[3]
Heckler & Koch GMG Thumb  Germany Automatic grenade launcher 40×53mm HV [1][2][3] Complementary order in 2024[4]
Man-portable anti-tank systems
AT4 Thumb  Sweden Recoilless gun 84 mm Light weight, one-shot, disposable.[2]
Carl Gustav recoilless rifle Thumb  Sweden M2
M4
Recoilless rifle 84 mm Re-loadable, fires a variety of ammunition. M2 variant used by the National Guard.[11] 800 Carl Gustaf M2 were donated by Norway.[12] Improved M4 variant on order.[13]
SPIKE Thumb  Israel SR
LR I
LR II
ER II
ATGM

Anti-tank guided missile

Modern tripod-mounted launcher, programmable attack, fire-and-forget. Fires several missile types, varying in weight and size as they fly from shorter to longer ranges.[2][3][14]
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Military vehicles

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Armoured fighting vehicles
ASCOD Thumb  Spain Infantry fighting vehicle ASCOD 2 (42) In 2024, Latvian Ministry of Defense made a decision to acquire ASCOD to replace the CVR(T).[15] In January 2025, Latvia signed €373 million contract for 42 vehicles.[16] The deliveries will begin in 2026 and will complete in 2027.[17]
CVR(T) Thumb  United Kingdom Armoured reconnaissance vehicle Scimitar
Sultan
Spartan
Samson
Samaritan
198 116 modernized vehicles in service, plus 7 used for training. 82 additional vehicles on order - to be delivered by 2022.[18][19]
Armoured vehicles
Patria 6×6 Thumb  Finland

 Latvia

Armoured personnel carrier Patria 6×6 ~100 (total ~256 on order) Over 200 vehicles on order, to be delivered 2021–2029.[20][21] The first 4 vehicles received on 29 October 2021. The vehicles are partially produced in Latvia since 2021.[22][23] In November 2024, 56 additional command vehicles were ordered.[24]
Humvee Thumb  United States Armoured car M1043A2
M1113
30
12
Ten vehicles donated by the United States in 2005.[25] Possibly 28 more purchased later.[26] Some equipped with HK GMG, M2 Browning and Spike anti-tank guided missile.[citation needed]
Mercedes-Benz G-Class Thumb  Austria

 Germany

Armored car (special forces) 290GD 50 [27][28] Second hand from Norway
Amphibious vehicles
Bv 206 Thumb  Sweden Tracked articulated vehicle (amphibious) Bv 206A
Bv 206F
100+ Donated by Sweden in 2002 and 2003.[29]
Light vehicles
VR FOX  Latvia Fast attack vehicle 1 (30+) Latvian Armed Forces tested 1 VR FOX prototype and in November 2024 Latvian Ministry of Defense made a decision to acquire more than 30 VR FOX vehicles[30]
Polaris RZR Thumb  United States Fast attack vehicle MRZR-2
MRZR-4
MV850
62[31] Option for up to 130 vehicles.[32]
Can-Am Outlander Thumb  Finland

 Canada

All-terrain vehicle Outlander MAX 650XT 582[33] [34]
Logistics
Mercedes-Benz Unimog Thumb  Germany Truck U1300
U5000
120[35]
Scania Thumb  Sweden Truck P93
NM154
184
8
134 P93 trucks and 8 NM154 recovery vehicles donated by Norway in 2013. 50 more trucks purchased in 2014.[27]
Engineering equipment
M3 Amphibious Rig Thumb  Germany Amphibious bridge layer 2 delivered 2 still to be delivered .[36]
Utility vehicles
Mercedes-Benz G-Class Thumb  Austria

 Germany

SUV 240GD
300GDN
+66[37]
12[12]
[27][38]
Land Rover Defender Thumb  United Kingdom SUV D110 2 D110 variant used by military police.[39]
Subaru Forester Thumb  Japan SUV 23 23 vehicles used by military police [40]
Nissan Navara Thumb  Japan SUV ~55 [40]
Peugeot 308  Thumb  France Car ~50 [40]
Ford Transit Custom Thumb  Germany

 Belgium

Light commercial vehicle ~35 [40]
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Indirect fire

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Mortars
GrW 86 Thumb  Austria Heavy mortar 120 mm Multiple units purchased from Austria in 2017.[41]
m/41D Thumb  Finland

 Sweden

Heavy mortar 120 mm 20~ [42]
Self-propelled artillery
M109A5Ö Thumb  United States

 Austria

Self-propelled howitzer 155 mm

L/39

47 35 howitzers, 10 command and control vehicles and 2 driver training vehicles purchased from Austria in 2017.[43]
Additional 18 howitzers received in 2021.[44] 6 howizers were donated to Ukraine.[45]
M109

Rechenstellenpanzer M109

Thumb Command and artillery computing station 10
M109 driver training Thumb Driver training vehicle 2
Rocket artillery
M142 HIMARS Thumb  United States MLRS 227 mm 0 (6 on order) In October 2022, Latvian Ministry of Defense announced that the country will acquire 6 systems.[46] The contract was signed in December 2023.[47]
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Unmanned aerial vehicles

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UAV Factory Penguin C  Latvia Penguin C Fixed-wing UAV

Unmanned aerial vehicle

ISR

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

Long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.[48]
AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma Thumb  United States RQ-20A Fixed-wing UAV

Unmanned aerial vehicle

ISR

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

3 systems, each having 3 unmanned aerial vehicles.[49]
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Anti-ship weapons

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Naval Strike Missile Thumb  Norway Anti-ship/land-attack missile Contract signed in 2023 and the system is planned to be operational in 2027.[50]
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Air defence

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Short-range air-defence
PPZR Piorun Thumb  Poland MANPAD

Man-portable air-defence systems

Undisclosed number of missiles ordered in 2022.[51]
RBS-70 Thumb  Sweden RBS-70 NG MANPAD

Man-portable air-defence systems

[52]
Medium-range air defence
IRIS-T Thumb  Germany IRIS-T SLM Medium range air defence missile systemIn May 2023, Estonia and Latvia made a decision to jointly procure medium-range IRIS-T SLM.[53] The contract was signed in November 2023 and the systems are planned to be operational in 2026.[54]
Radars
AN/MPQ-64F1 Sentinel Thumb  United States AN/MPQ-64F1 3D air search radar [55]
AN/TPS-77 Thumb  United States AN/TPS-77
TPS-77 MRR
3D air search radar Used for the Baltic Air Surveillance Network[56]
Hensoldt TRML 4D Thumb  Germany Air surveillance and target acquisition radar Radar for the IRIS-T SML air defence system[57]
Saab Giraffe Thumb  Sweden Early warning radar [42]
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Retired/obsolete equipment

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1918–1940

During the Latvian War of Independence, the armed formations of the Republic of Latvia (which were united into the Latvian Army in July 1919) used a wide range of surplus weapons acquired from Russian, German and other stocks. Substantial support was offered by British, French and other forces. The main infantry rifle after the war was the Pattern 1914 Enfield (P14).[58]

1991–present

In the 1990s, the Latvian Army and National Guard troops were equipped with leftover Soviet, Romanian and Czechoslovak[59] weapons like the AKM, AK-74, SKS rifles and TT and Makarov pistols, alongside early procurements of CZ 82 pistols from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the late 1990s, a gradual switch to the Swedish-made Automatkarbin 4 began, but AK-pattern rifles remained. Today Ak4 rifles are mostly kept in storage.[60] In 1995, the Czechs donated 20 120mm mortars (possibly the vz. 82 PRAM-L) and 24 100 mm vz. 53 field guns.[59]

Retired/obsolete vehicles include:

  • 2 BRDM-2 armored cars (donated by Poland by 1992, mostly used by the Suži Airborne Reconnaissance Battalion of the Land Forces, later used as target practice);[61][62]
  • 5 T-55AM2 Mérida tanks (donated by Poland in 1999).[63] Three remaining tanks, still used for training purposes as of 2024, were reported to have come from the Czech Republic in 2000, not Poland;[64][65]
  • ~12 Terrängbil m/42 KP APCs (donated around 1994 by Sweden to the Baltic states, retired by the late 1990s or early 2000s; at least one transferred to the State Border Guard).[65][62][66][67]

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