In a moment of rare institutional candor, Latvia's Prime Minister acknowledged that his country had acquired anti-drone systems without the ammunition to operate them — a procurement failure as elementary as it is consequential. The admission arrived amid active drone incidents and a broader reckoning with the distance between Latvia's self-styled reputation as a drone technology leader and its actual defensive readiness. Nations, like individuals, sometimes discover that the appearance of capability and the substance of it are not the same thing, and the cost of that confusion is rarely abstr