The European Union (and NATO) accelerate on the idea of an anti-drone wall just as the sightings of without pilot aircraft, always in Denmark and Sweden, near military bases multiply. The defense commissioner Andrius Kubilius, from Finland, presided over a meeting with 9 EU countries, plus Ukrainian, to move on to the implementation phase of the plan, proposed by the president of the Ursula von der Leyen commission during his programmatic discourse in Strasbourg. “It is a priority, because we are discovered on drones and immediately serves a network of detection, tracing and interception sensors,” extended the former Lithuanian premier Kubilius.
If on the one hand we defend ourselves, on the other you think you go to the attack. According to the British Telegraph, in fact, the weapons of Tomahawk are the weapons that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked Donald Trump in private to force the Kremlin to sit at the negotiation table. The Tomahawk have a range ranging from 1,600 to 2,500 kilometers and would allow Kiev to hit the Russian territory deeply, with much more strength than the weapons developed at home cannot do at the moment – hence Zelensky’s ‘advice’ to the highest Moscow officials to control the presence of anti -aircraft shelters near the Kremlin. Now, at the moment there are no indications that the tycoon has accepted. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, has however liquidated Zelensky’s exit as “irresponsible”.
Returning to the anti-drone wall, the idea was born in Baltic, looking at Ukrainian experience to neutralize tomorrow threats (but also today, as shown by the chronicles). Von der Leyen, during his visit to the eastern side of the early September, learned the details and decided to make it a European battle. With spectacular timing, it must be said. Kubilius explained that the anti-drone wall is part of a broader project, the Eastern Flank Watch (East side guard), “the top project on the defense aimed at protecting the entire European Union” which will have a “terrestrial” component (for example the anti-carro trenches), of “Maritime Security for the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea” and “Measures on space”. The meeting was attended by the defense ministers of Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.
In addition, the high EU representative Kaja Kallas, the Danish presidency of the Council and a NATO representative. Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal shared the Kiev field experience. The theme will also be treated at the informal summit of the EU leaders of Copenhagen but, meanwhile, the Ministries’ Sherpa will begin practical work, because it is imperative to progress. NATO, in all this, is certainly not looking at and from the headquarters make it known that the first new generation systems will be located already in the next “weeks and months”. However, having an integrated alert and response system along the entire eastern side, from Finland (which has 1300 kilometers of the border with Russia) on the Black Sea, is a monumental company, as well as expensive.
According to well -informed sources consulted by the ANSA, analysis are underway to understand which system to adopt, with a mix of “kinetic tools” (technical term for missiles, machine guns, interceptors drones) and not (for example cyber vehicles, electromagnetic or laser cannons prototypes). Also because the model developed by Ukraine, now so cited, would need “millions of intercers”. ” Kiev say that Lithuania alone, which has 900 kilometers of frontier with Russia and Belarus, would serve 3 million “, says one of the sources.