For Europe’s ‘drone wall,’ detecting threats is challenge number one: Officials

European countries should have an initial ‘drone wall’ architecture mapped out within the next couple of months, but a trio of senior defense officials contend that right now, detection is the name of the game.

“Detection — especially detection on the low altitudes — this is the most difficult part and when you add to the drones, the low flying cruise missiles, then the detection is really a challenge,” Estonian Minister of Defence Hanno Pevkur told Breaking Defense Saturday, amid a wave of Russian drone incursions and sightings across Europe that have put the continent on high alert.

Pevkur said that today in Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces are unable to down somewhere between 20 percent to 30 percent of the incoming Russian drones, and accurately detecting swarms remains a challenge.

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