Hundreds or even thousands of non-tripulated aircraft can be highlighted to watch the area, in a proposal that Lithuania and Estonia had already presented to the European Union but which Brussels refused to fund
Germany wants to erect a “drone wall” along the eastern flank on the Russian border to protect its Baltic allies from a potential future Russian invasion.
The news was advanced this Sunday by the British newspaper, days after Friedrich Merz, leader of the German CDU and winner of the end of February, announced an agreement with the SPD to AA to take office in May.
Even before this, Germany’s future chancellor had promised to bet on the country’s rearmament over Russia’s growing threat and at a time when Europeans could no longer have the support of the Americans to Donald Trump’s rudder.
A month ago, Merz and future coalition partners have agreed to approve historical tax reforms, which will allow potentially unlimited spending on defense projects. And it is in this context that the German armament industry is now discussing the possibility of building a fleet of drones, or “drone wall” to defend the entire eastern flank of NATO or part of this east border with Russian territory.
The project, also known as “drones nexus” in the circles of industry, “would consist of hundreds, if not thousands, of unmanned aircraft that would watch the border, act as an early detection system and dissuade the Russian aggression” to the countries with which long borders, Finland, Estonia and Latvia sharing.
There are fears between European and Western leaders that, in the future, this border with NATO’s Eastern states becomes a point of ignition for a great war with Russia. In February, Denmark’s secret services joined the alerts of other European security agencies on the risks of a wide conflict, noting that Moscow can decide to start this war.
The governments of Finland, Lithuania, Norway and Poland had already advocated the construction of a continental -scale drone protection wall, with EU funding, but this proposal was, opening the door to an alternative approach led by Germany.
“With the correct political coordination, a first operational layer – using existing and proven technology – could be implemented within a year,” says Telegraph Martin Karkour, Quantum Systems Sales Director. “Technology is ready, what is still needed is a strategy at the EU or NATO level. We have the ability to produce hundreds of AI recognition drones per month and to increase scale.”
Defense company Helsing, headquartered in Munich, had already shown interest in the concept of a “drone wall,” stating that patrols with unmanned aircraft can be an alternative to Russian -border -mined fields with NATO countries from Finland to Bulgaria.
“If we move there in large numbers,” Gundbert Scherf, Helsing’s CEO, said in an interview with the German newspaper DeutschlandFunk, “if we lean on asymmetrical capabilities and concentrate tens of thousands of combat drones, then it will be a very credible conventional dissuasion.”
