Drone incidents have been making headlines across Europe for more than a week.
During the night of 10 September, the Russian drone entered the polish airplane in an unprecedented wave of drones. 19 unmanned air vehicles were identified, some of which were shot down.
A few days later, a member of the Russian drone NATO crossed the field of Romania.
On Monday, Polish authorities took a drone down to fly on government buildings in Warsaw and allegedly expanded two suspects from Belarus and Ukraine.
No one was injured in the thesis incidents, and Russia denied that intruders were deliberately. Nevertheless, NATO has responded by launching a new mission to protect the airspace on his eastern flank.
What is Operation Eastern Orange?
Defense Alliance announced an official statement on 12 September, “multi-domain activity”, “multi-domain activity” continues to include both the ground bases and aerial rescue and “continue to continue.”
With this new operation, NATO aims to send a clear message to both its eastern member states and Russia.
The UK and Denmark have supported the initiative among other members. Germany has doubled the number of fighter aircraft dedicated to air defense in Poland from two to four, and France has deployed Rafale fighter jets.
‘Sladhemer on a thumbtac’
While jets and air-to-air missiles have been successfully deployed against drone, they are anything but cost effective.
“The kind of drone we are seizing in Ukraine [$11,800 to $35,400] a piece. If you are firing the million dollars missiles on them, you are going to get out of them very fast, “Chris Kremidas-courty, a defense expert at the Brasails-based think tank European Policy Center (EPC), told DW.” We are using a slademors on a thumbtac. ,
Cremidas-Cortney stated that European NATO members should invest in more efficient modern defense technology instead that can prevent drones at a fraction of cost, as an example, offer Swedish-made Nimbrics Anti-Drone missile system as an example. Otherwise, Cremidas-Cortney said, Europe will be stuck with a problem “Cost disparity.”
A drone wall?
Poland, Finland and Baltic states, which regularly deal with the Russian avatar in their airspace, have asked bees to an increase in coordinated drone defense for many years.
This concept has often been referred to as a “drone wall” – a word in his latest state association speech by European Commission Chairman Ursula von Der Leyen.
Ukrainian No-how is ready to play an important role in the construction of this rhetorical wall, the European Commission announced a joint drone-production project € 6 billion ($ 7.1 billion).
“We need to learn from Ukrainian,” said Ian Bond, Deputy Director, Brussels-based Think Tank Center for European Reform (CER). “They have a lot of success rate in bringing Russian drones down, and, if they have technology to do it, we need to get it and copy it.”
NATO to Putin: ‘We will answer’
One of the major challenges for NATO to implement New Drone Defense Technology for NATO, former Chairman of NATO military committee, Admiral Rob Bauur told DW.
In addition to investing in new hardware, Bauur said, Europe needs to adopt a separate mentality towards Russia: “We need to give information to our people, and people need to accept that there is a danger.”
For his share, Kremlin has repeated the line he considers NATO as a war in Russia.
Although NATO denied that this was the case, the farmer said the alliance “was a gray zone between” and what is on high alert. “This is a very imported message for Mr. Putin,” Baur said, “Will respect NATO, whatever is the Hapens.”
Bauur said that Allied Defense proved that he worked when he shot the drone over Poland. “I think we passed the test,” hey said, “but we have to be better to address these new threats.”
Can NATo stop future drone opportunities?
The current drone of bonds, ser, coalition is doubted about defense abilities. “The perception is that NATO was not designed for the drone shooting,” Hey said, “and it needs to increase its game significantly.”
Bond said that NATO needs to show more resolutions and take the Russian drone down whenever it can be done safely – even if they are flying in western Ukraine.
NATO member states have avoided doing so in many cases so far.
In July, Lithuania reported that two Russian drones had crossed its airspace, but it did not shoot them. In a statement quoted in the Lithuanian media, the army said that it will take such measures only under extreme conditions. After the incident, Lithuania asked NATO to increase air rescue.
Recently, Romania did not take active measures against a Russian drone in its airspace, which then changed the course and moved towards Ukraine. According to Romania’s Ministry of Defense, Air Force pilots saw the drone, “assessed the collateral risk and decided not to open the fire.”
Bond said that Russia could read the search inactivity as an encouraging sign, and drones such as thesis may attack goals in Ukraine.
Civil protection measures are needed
While intercepting the drone is important to defend the airspace of NATO, experts say governments should consider the discovery of measures as air print warning apps and shelter capacity have increased.
Defense analyst Bond said, “This will be a new step, but I don’t think it’s a highly step.”
Hey said that he believes that Russia will continue to test Ukraine’s colleagues until he ramps a large extent in his own defense and support for the country.
Cremidas-Cortney shared this assessment: “We must assume that Russia is going to try it every two weeks, unless we pay them a price that does not decide.”
NATO hopes that the Operation Eastern Sentry just wants to do this.
DW’s Terry Shults contributed to reporting.
Edited by: Angle Flangon