Lithuania announced this Friday that NATO countries bordering Russia wanted to build a “drone wall” to protect themselves from their neighbor.
A technology that would serve to “protect” these states “against provocations from hostile countries and to prevent smuggling,” according to Vilnius.
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Dozens of drones to secure the borders of NATO countries neighboring Russia. At the end of a meeting between the Ministers of the Interior of the three Baltic countries, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, but also of Poland, Finland and Norway, the Lithuanian representative Agne Bilotaite announced the establishment of a “drone wall“, who will be able to “extend from Norway to Poland“.”This is a completely new thing, insisted the manager. The goal is to use drones and other technologies to protect our borders.“
How armed are drones?
How could this device materialize? “It is not only about physical infrastructure, surveillance systems, but also drones and other technologies, which would allow us to protect ourselves against provocations from hostile countries and prevent smuggling“, detailed Agne Bilotaite. According to her, drones could intercept enemy vehicles thanks to their installation at the border. According to Xavier Tytelman, former military aviator and aeronautics specialist, “several possibilities“are on the table to build this”wall“.
“This may resemble what we are already doing with French drones, which go back and forth to the borders, develops the expert, interviewed this Friday evening on the LCI set. That’s surveillance. This makes it possible to spot with great advance notice a mass of troops or weapons that are going to be sent, for example.“A method which would allow fighter planes to be used only as a last resort, the use of which is much more expensive than a simple drone. In all cases, a central question arises: to what extent these would the machines be armed? Equip them with ammunition?would allow you to react instantly if there was a mass of troops forming near the bordere”, continues Xavier Tytelman.
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Lithuania has not yet given a timetable for this project, approved due to current security concerns in the region, in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
