Ukraine pledges to bolster Polish drone defence with training

Training volition impact teaching each the steps progressive successful intercepting unmanned force aerial vehicles. 

Ukraine has agreed to bid Polish soldiers and engineers successful drone defence, according to the countries’ defence ministers.

During a quality league successful the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, connected Thursday, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said Poland would motion a practice statement with Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence and the grooming would instrumentality spot successful Lipa, a colony successful confederate Poland.

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“We are talking astir grooming engineers and grooming soldiers who volition withstand and support the aerial domain,” Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal said portion lasting adjacent to Kosiniak-Kamysz.

“We are not lone talking astir interceptor drones due to the fact that this is lone the extremity of this iceberg which allows america to support our entity together,” Shmyhal added.

The announcement comes a week aft Polish and NATO forces changeable down much than 20 drones violating the country’s airspace during a Russian aerial onslaught connected neighbouring Ukraine.

Fighter jets fired missiles to instrumentality down those drones, a process that costs overmuch much than Russia pays to proviso and motorboat cheap, mass-produced drones.

Russia said its forces had been attacking Ukraine astatine the clip of the drone incursion and it had not intended to deed Polish targets.

Ukraine says it has world-leading capabilities successful counteracting ample Russian drone attacks cheaply, utilizing a analyzable layered strategy involving interceptor drones, dense machineguns and physics warfare.

Ukraine, according to Shmyhal, volition besides supply entree to immoderate of its systems for tracking Russian aerial targets truthful Poland could spot what is perchance heading towards its territory.

Training for Polish forces would impact the full “ecosystem” of however to intercept unmanned force aerial vehicles, from identifying their locations and jamming them electronically to downing them with interceptor drones, helium said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been promoting the usage of interceptor drones and wants to ramp up their accumulation with Western help.