Gongol.com Archives: August 2025
August 10, 2025
Poland and Norway to team up on drone defense systems
To get most directly from Poland to Norway, one would have to cross the territories of Denmark and/or Sweden, and possibly Germany as well. Their geographic separation is being overcome by a plan to cooperatively develop a system for Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS). One company from each country will enter the planned partnership. ■ Notably, though they are not next-door neighbors, both countries border Russia, which has been aggressively weaponizing drones (UAS) against Ukraine. It doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to see whose behavior may be instigating these kinds of partnerships. ■ The supposed plans for a meeting in Alaska between the presidents of Russia and the United States should have a lot of the world taking notice. Will an unwilling Ukraine be forced into compromises it wasn't invited to discuss? Reasonable minds can hope not, but there's reason to believe that such a worry isn't misplaced. The very thought that outside forces may decide what happens to a country like Ukraine should keep people awake at night. ■ That ought to be alarming for Europe generally. Even if things go entirely Ukraine's way (which is unlikely), the countries that could easily be in the way of future Russian territorial hunger pangs should act as though trouble is somewhere on a spectrum from "not unlikely" to "nearly inevitable". The time has never been more ripe for getting cross-border cooperation underway to make for stronger European-grown defensive technologies.
