US Edition'Wall of Drones' to Stop Russians: 'Amazing that We Are only Now Thinking About It'
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The incursion of Russian drones into Poland last Wednesday has revealed cracks in European detection and defenses against the threat of the Kremlin. When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is on track for its fourth anniversary and Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin increases his hybrid war actions against the West, the European Union designs a “droon wall” to shield its skies from the drones that the Kremlin has made a fundamental part of its military s…
The Russian drones that were able to fly into Poland this week are exposing the holes in NATO's air defenses. Fighter jets and expensive missiles were supposed to neutralize cheap drones. The answer? A wall of drones along the NATO border from Norway to Poland.
For the first time, Nato has been attacked directly, a sight from the eastern Polish border area.
The nervousness of NATO's eastern flank is great: in Poland, air defense was put on standby, the smartphones of many people received warning messages. About Romania, two F-16 jets persecuted a Russian drone.
After the launch of allegedly Russian drones on Wednesday, further incidents at the NATO external border on the weekend exacerbated tensions between Moscow and the Western military alliance. Poland launched fighter jets on Saturday because of possible drone attacks in the Ukrainian border area, Romania did the same after a drone had invaded the airspace. Russia rejects responsibility for this, in NATO countries the tone gets sharper.
Russian drones in Polish airspace show that targets in Poland are easily accessible to Russia. Why NATO has weakened on the eastern border so far.
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