Given the multiple Russian incursions, European leaders seek to establish an anti-Drone “wall” to protect themselves, but the project arouses questions and discuss.
What are we talking about?
NATO’s response to the incursion of about twenty Russian drones in Poland highlighted the gaps in the Arsenal of the Alliance against this threat. To reduce three of these drones, the alliance had to mobilize expensive missiles
The European Defense Commissioner, Andrius Kubilius, has defended for a long time for new solutions to this threat, but was the president of the commission, Ursula Von Le Leyen, who spoke for the first time about the idea of a “wall of drones” on September 10 before the Eurodiputados.
At first, the idea is to deploy more sensors, terrestrial or satellite, along the border that the European Union shares with Russia. Ukraine, an expert in the field, displayed an acoustic sensor system since the beginning of the war, Andrius Kubilius explained. “I think we can do this quite fast,” he told AFP.
Ukraine will participate in the development of this wall against food in Europe, confirmed its president Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday. After almost four years of war, Kyiv has set a foot from an unique anti-foment drone and fooment industry.
According to a European official, this deployment will have been at least one year, before the implementation, later, of interception capabilities.
There is no new “Maginot Line”
According to experts, drone technology is changing very quickly, and it is likely that the systems planned today are obsolete by then.
“We also know that technology is evolving so fast that we cannot have a single idea and we believe will solve all our problems,” Danish prime minister put Frederiksen, whose country, was fly by mysterious drones, shortly before a summit of European leaders in Copenhagen on Wednesday.
It will be necessary to “learn the lessons” of what Ukraine has been able to establish, in a very pragmatic way, the French presidency stressed this week.
It is not about building a new “Maginot line”, warned the prime minister, which was Kristen Michal, cited by a European official. France had built a defense line before World War II along its border with Germany, which turned out to be completely useless and was avoided.
“Sometimes I distrusted some somewhat fast terms such as” iron domes “or” drone walls, things are more sophisticated, more complex in reality, “French president Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday.
Who will pay?
The anti-Drone “wall” was discussed in detail on Wednesday by EU 27 leaders, gathered in Copenhagen. And if many said they were in favor of their implementation, some have expressed “reservations.”
According to a European official, Germany, for example, questioned the cost of this operation, even if the issue of the funds was not on the agenda of the meeting on Wednesday.
Andrius Kubilius was reassuring, evoking a “rank” of several billion euros, not hundreds of thousands of millions. “
Other countries, far from the Russian border, fear that they stay behind, according to a European official. The European Commission also sought to calm down promising a “360 degree” strategy.
“When we talk about the Anti-Drone wall, we are talking about all of Europe, not just a single country,” Volodymyr Zelensky also assured Thursday.
Others finally question the relevance of trusting the European Commission with the management of a “wall” anti-Drone project, while defense is the responsibility of the Member States.
The subject must be mentioned again in a next European summit at the end of October.
Source: BFM TV
