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Speaking on Le Collimateur on July 11, 2025, Belgian air and naval warfare specialist Joseph Henrotin warned his interviewer: “If we have swarms of Shaheds heading towards France, Sweden, the Baltic States—what do we do? We have a series of missiles, but our stockpiles will be depleted very quickly. It’s not with the SAMP/T that we’re going to solve the problem.”
On August 20, 2025, about 100 km from Warsaw and 40 km from a NATO air base meant to protect the airspace, a Russian drone struck a civilian area in Poland.
According to Defense Express, the absence of interception can be related to the absence of a complete network of ground-based radar intended to detect low-altitude threats, “as this would require positioning stations every 30–50 kilometers”. And what applies to Poland appears to apply to other European countries as well.
After a series of similar incidents in Lithuania and Romania, we see how Russia’s aerial threat in Europe is growing.
