# List of equipment of the Latvian Land Forces

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

## 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

| Model | Origin | Variant | Type | Caliber | Details |
| Pistols |||||||
| Glock | Austria | Glock 17Glock 19Glock 21Glock 26 | Semi-automatic pistol | 9×19mm Parabellum | Standard issue pistol. |
| Heckler & Koch P2 | Germany | HK P2A1 | Flare gun | 26.5mm | Complementary order in 2024 |
| Submachine guns |||||||
| Heckler & Koch UMP | Germany | UMP9 | Submachine gun | 9×19mm Parabellum | Standard issue submachine gun. |
| Heckler & Koch MP5 | West Germany | MP5A3 | Submachine gun | 9×19mm Parabellum | |
| Heckler & Koch MP7 | Germany | MP7A2 | PDW Personal defence weapon | HK 4.6×30mm | |
| Shotguns |||||||
| Remington 870 | United States | MCS | Pump action shotgun | 12 gauge | |
| Winchester 1300 | United States | | Pump action shotgun | 12 gauge | Is going to be replaced. |
| Mossberg 500 | United States | | Pump action shotgun | 12 gauge | It is planned to be replaced. |
| Assault rifles |||||||
| Heckler & Koch G36 | Germany | G36V G36KV G36KV3 | Assault rifle | 5.56×45mm NATO | Standard issue assault rifle. Complementary order in 2024. |
| M16 | United States | M16A1 | Assault rifle | 5.56×45mm NATO | Used by Honour Guard, as ceremonial rifle. |
| Precision rifles |||||||
| Heckler & Koch HK417 | Germany | HK417A2 | Designated marksman rifle | 7.62×51mm NATO | |
| Accuracy International Arctic Warfare | United Kingdom | AW | Bolt action sniper rifle | 7.62×51mm NATO | AW variant used to be the standard issue sniper rifle. |
| Accuracy International AXMC | United Kingdom | AXMC | Bolt action sniper rifle | 8.6×70mm | |
| Accuracy International AX50 | United Kingdom | AX50 ELR | Anti materiel sniper rifle | 12.7×99mm NATO | |
| PGM Hécate II | France | | Anti materiel sniper rifle | 12.7×99mm NATO | Standard issue heavy sniper rifle. |
| Barrett M107 | United States | M107A1 | Anti materiel sniper rifle | 12.7×99mm NATO | |
| Machine guns |||||||
| FN Minimi | Belgium | Minimi Para | Light machine gun | 5.56×45mm NATO | Standard issue light machine gun. |
| FN MAGKulspruta 58 | Belgium  Sweden | FN MAGKulspruta 58 B | General-purpose machine gun | 7.62×51mm NATO | |
| M2 Browning | United States  Belgium | M2HB-QCB | Heavy machine gun | 12.7×99mm NATO | |
| Protocol service weapons |||||||
| M14 | United States | | Battle rifle | 7.62×51mm NATO | Used by Honour Guard, as ceremonial rifle. |
| Lee-Enfield | United Kingdom | No.4 MkI* | Bolt action rifle | .303 British | 120 rifles were donated by Canada. Used by Honour Guard, as ceremonial rifle. |
| Grenade launchers |||||||
| Heckler & Koch AG36 | Germany | | Under-barrel grenade launcher | 40×46mm LV | |
| Milkor MGL | South Africa  Croatia | Metallic RBG-6 | Automatic grenade launcher | 40×46mm LV | Produced initially without license by Metallic d.o.o. |
| Heckler & Koch GMG | Germany | | Automatic grenade launcher | 40×53mm HV | Complementary order in 2024 |
| Man-portable anti-tank systems |||||||
| AT4 | Sweden | | Recoilless gun | 84 mm | Light weight, one-shot, disposable. |
| Carl Gustav recoilless rifle | Sweden | M2M4 | Recoilless rifle | 84 mm | Re-loadable, fires a variety of ammunition. M2 variant used by the National Guard. 800 Carl Gustaf M2 were donated by Norway. Improved M4 variant on order. |
| SPIKE | Israel | SRLR ILR IIER 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. |

## Military vehicles

| Name | Origin | Type | Variants | Quantity | Notes |
| Armoured fighting vehicles |||||||
| ASCOD | Spain | Infantry fighting vehicle | ASCOD 2 | (42) | In 2024, Latvian Ministry of Defense made a decision to acquire ASCOD to replace the CVR(T). In January 2025, Latvia signed €373 million contract for 42 vehicles. The deliveries will begin in 2026 and will complete in 2027. |
| CVR(T) | 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. |
| Armoured vehicles |||||||
| Patria 6×6 | Finland  Latvia | Armoured personnel carrier | Patria 6×6 | ~100 (total ~256 on order) | Over 200 vehicles on order, to be delivered 2021–2029. The first 4 vehicles received on 29 October 2021. The vehicles are partially produced in Latvia since 2021. In November 2024, 56 additional command vehicles were ordered. |
| Humvee | United States | Armoured car | M1043A2M1113 | 3012 | Ten vehicles donated by the United States in 2005. Possibly 28 more purchased later. Some equipped with HK GMG, M2 Browning and Spike anti-tank guided missile. |
| Mercedes-Benz G-Class | Austria  Germany | Armored car (special forces) | 290GD | 50 | Second hand from Norway |
| Amphibious vehicles |||||||
| Bv 206 | Sweden | Tracked articulated vehicle (amphibious) | Bv 206A Bv 206F | 100+ | Donated by Sweden in 2002 and 2003. |
| 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 |
| Polaris RZR | United States | Fast attack vehicle | MRZR-2 MRZR-4 MV850 | 62 | Option for up to 130 vehicles. |
| Can-Am Outlander | Finland  Canada | All-terrain vehicle | Outlander MAX 650XT | 582 | |
| Logistics |||||||
| Mercedes-Benz Unimog | Germany | Truck | U1300U5000 | 120 | |
| Scania | Sweden | Truck | P93NM154 | 1848 | 134 P93 trucks and 8 NM154 recovery vehicles donated by Norway in 2013. 50 more trucks purchased in 2014. |
| Engineering equipment |||||||
| M3 Amphibious Rig | Germany | Amphibious bridge layer | | | 2 delivered 2 still to be delivered . |
| Utility vehicles |||||||
| Mercedes-Benz G-Class | Austria  Germany | SUV | 240GD300GDN | +6612 | |
| Land Rover Defender | United Kingdom | SUV | D110 | 2 | D110 variant used by military police. |
| Subaru Forester | Japan | SUV | | 23 | 23 vehicles used by military police |
| Nissan Navara | Japan | SUV | | ~55 | |
| Peugeot 308 | France | Car | | ~50 | |
| Ford Transit Custom | Germany  Belgium | Light commercial vehicle | | ~35 | |

## Indirect fire

| Model | Origin | Type | Caliber | Quantity | Details |
| Mortars |||||||
| GrW 86 | Austria | Heavy mortar | 120 mm | | Multiple units purchased from Austria in 2017. |
| m/41D | Finland  Sweden | Heavy mortar | 120 mm | 20~ | |
| Self-propelled artillery |||||||
| M109A5Ö | 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. Additional 18 howitzers received in 2021. 6 howizers were donated to Ukraine. |
| M109 Rechenstellenpanzer M109 | United States  Austria | Command and artillery computing station | – | 10 | |
| M109 driver training | United States  Austria | Driver training vehicle | – | 2 | |
| Rocket artillery |||||||
| M142 HIMARS | United States | MLRS | 227 mm | 0 (6 on order) | In October 2022, Latvian Ministry of Defense announced that the country will acquire 6 systems. The contract was signed in December 2023. |

## Unmanned aerial vehicles

| Model | Image | Origin | Variant | Type | Role | |
| UAV Factory Penguin C | | Latvia | Penguin C | Fixed-wing UAV Unmanned aerial vehicle | ISR Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance | Long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles. |
| AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma | | United States | RQ-20A | Fixed-wing UAV Unmanned aerial vehicle | ISR Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance | 3 systems, each having 3 unmanned aerial vehicles. |

## Anti-ship weapons

| Model | Image | Origin | Type | Caliber | Notes |
| Naval Strike Missile | | Norway | Anti-ship/land-attack missile | | Contract signed in 2023 and the system is planned to be operational in 2027. |

## Air defence

| Model | Origin | Variant | Type | Details |
| Short-range air-defence ||||||
| PPZR Piorun | Poland | | MANPAD Man-portable air-defence systems | Undisclosed number of missiles ordered in 2022. |
| RBS-70 | Sweden | RBS-70 NG | MANPAD Man-portable air-defence systems | |
| Medium-range air defence ||||||
| IRIS-T | Germany | IRIS-T SLM | Medium range air defence missile system | In May 2023, Estonia and Latvia made a decision to jointly procure medium-range IRIS-T SLM. The contract was signed in November 2023 and the systems are planned to be operational in 2026. |
| Radars ||||||
| AN/MPQ-64F1 Sentinel | United States | AN/MPQ-64F1 | 3D air search radar | |
| AN/TPS-77 | United States | AN/TPS-77TPS-77 MRR | 3D air search radar | Used for the Baltic Air Surveillance Network |
| Hensoldt TRML 4D | Germany | | Air surveillance and target acquisition radar | Radar for the IRIS-T SML air defence system |
| Saab Giraffe | Sweden | | Early warning radar | |

## Retired/obsolete equipment

In the 1990s, the Latvian Army and National Guard troops were equipped with leftover Soviet, Romanian and Czechoslovak 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. In 1995, the Czechs donated 20 120mm mortars (possibly the vz. 82 PRAM-L) and 24 100 mm vz. 53 field guns.
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);
* 5 T-55AM2 Mérida tanks (donated by Poland in 1999). Three remaining tanks, still used for training purposes as of 2024, were reported to have come from the Czech Republic in 2000, not Poland;
* ~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).