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Latvia plans to invest €20 million ($22 million) in the development of military drones, Defence Minister Andris Sprūds said in Riga on Monday. “Metaphorically, we could speak of a drone army,” Sprūds added. The investment will go creating infrastructure as well as to the purchase of drones, some of them from Latvian companies. “We are strengthening the entire ecosystem and at the same time our own industry, which is able to create, develop and manufacture these technologies for our armed forces and for supporting Ukraine,” he said. A drone testing ground is to go into operation at the Selonia …