NATO plans to strengthen defenses on Europe’s borders with Russia in the next two years, primarily by creating an “automated defense zone” equipped with systems that operate almost without soldiers, a German general has told the German press.
“The defense plan will include a defensive zone that the enemy must cross before advancing, a kind of hot zone,” he told World on Sunday, Brigadier General Thomas Lowin, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at NATO Land Forces Command in Izmir, Turkey.
Specifically, the sensors will detect enemy forces and activate defense systems, such as armed drones, partially autonomous combat vehicles, unmanned ground robots, as well as automated air and missile defense systems, the general specified.
However, the final decision on the use of these weapons “will always be a human responsibility,” it writes. yahoonews.
The sensors, which should cover an area of several thousand kilometers, will be placed “on the ground or in the air,” according to Lowin.
They will be able to collect data on “enemy movements or weapons use” to inform all NATO countries in real time.