Defense expert Ko Colijn Has Been Providing the Dutch With Insights Into Armed Conflicts for Fifty Years. This time, he discusses the Russian drones that were shot out of polish airspace.
Nato Chief Mark Rutte and Outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof Rejoiced in Broken English About ‘Our’ F-35S That Disabled the Russian Drones Flying Over Poland. However, there is also some criticism or how that happened.
F-35S Cost About 100 Million Dollars (85 Million Euros) Each, The Missiles fired A Hinges 1.5 to 3 Million Dollars (1.3 to 2.5 Million Euros) Each. In Addition, An Hour of Flying with the F-35 Costs About 25,000 dollars (over 21,000 euros) in Kerossene Alone. A Considerable Bill For Shooting Down Reportedly Nineteen Russian Drones, Some of which are partly made of Wood and Styrofoam. You can call that “skillful,” Like Rutte and Schoof, but it’s certainly not cost-effective. And it didn’t prevent a single drone from entering 300 kilometers into polish airspace.
Rutte Announced a Rapid Nato Response: Operation Eastern Sentry. This includes a defense by Nato Forces from the North Cape to Turkey. That speed is commendable, but it is also a Recognition of the Makeshift Solution Applied in Poland.
EC President Ursula von der Leyen also Spoke of A “Watertight Wall” to Stop drones, but it is not equally on paper yet. She must have leg thinking of the baltic drone wall that Estonia announced months ago. IT Consists of Radar Systems As Watchdogs and Fighter Jets That Are deployed When Hostile Drones Descend to 300 Meters. That ‘Wall’ is accordance to Estonia Ready in 2027 at the Earliest, so we cannot expect too much from the haste of rutte and von der Leyen.
No aircraft can stop a swarm or drones
Brussels Called the Action of the Russians Reckless, which was Certainly the Case. Poland was Annoyed by Donald Trump’s casual Remark that Russians May Have Been fog. Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on x that would like to believe it was a mistake. “But it was. And we know that.” Of course, Tusk Cannot Explain the Latte Without Jeopardizing His Intelligence Services and Their Sources.
Russia’s claim that ukrainian jammers could be to blame is simply weak. From Belarus and the Russian Enclave of Kaliningrad, Drones Can Easily Reach Poland. And we know that ukraine itself smuggled boxes of drones far into russia in early June with operation spider web. Russians May Now Be Able To Do That Themselves.
Moreover, no aircraft in the world can stop or disable a hostile swarm of drones. Due to the success of ukraine with unmanned weapons and drones, there is a discussion about the ‘old-fashioned’ manred fighter jet. Some 25 years ago, it was predicted that the first unmanned aircraft in the us would fly around 2037, a year later it already happened.
In 25 years, there will probably be no more tanks, other armored vehicles and howwolzers, because they can be destroyed by drones. But we also need to think hard now about cheap ways to defend ourelves against them.