When a few days ago Guido Corsetto, Minister of Defense, complained about the lack of a protective “shield” on our country certainly thought of the risk represented by drones. On the other hand, the declarations came after Poland, with the help of some other NATO nations (including Italy) had had to face the invasion of its aerial space by about twenty drones launched by Russia. Another loose Russian drone, a few days ago, also violated the aerial space of Romania, another country of the European Union and NATO which shares the border with Ukraine.
Today the drones only the main threat that comes from the sky in most war theaters. According to the data collected by New York Times At the beginning of this week, in 2025 Russia has sent over 34,000 attack drones and baits to Ukraine so far (used to confuse anti -aircraft defense systems), almost nine times the number recorded at the same time last year.
Drones can also be decisive to determine the outcome of an armed conflict. It is documented that the use of Turkish drones at low cost was crucial by Azerbaijan to defeat Armenia and force it to give in to the control of part of the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabach, in the Caucasus region. According to experts, these weapons have changed the rules of the game. Azeri drones have provided significant advantages for long -range attachment skills, allowing the azere forces to identify, fix, trace and affect objectives with precise attacks well beyond the lines of the front.
“There is no doubt that the drone has become the protagonist of the modern war,” he says Pietro BatacchI, director of the Italian Defense magazine. «The drone gives flexibility, versatility and also mass. And no one more than the Russians knows that the quantity is quality. Russian have greatly improved the Iranian Shad drone making it more capable with the reaction engine and the provision of cameras. They introduced fiber optic cables on smaller drones to introduce fiber optical driving systems, which makes the drone immune from electromagnetic disorders. Ukraine also has startups that produce drones and have western technical assistance ».
Russia today produces drones on its own, in factories installed in the remote region of Tatarstan and young African women have also been recruited for assembly.
Meanwhile, Taiwan intends to invest in 50,000 drones over the next two years. The decision arrives at a time when the island has to face growing pressure from China, which claims the territory as its own.
A few days ago the Financial Times He wrote that “drones of drones fueled by artificial intelligence are destined to transform the battlefield, with companies that launch cutting -edge software to make attacks with pilot -free weapons that overwhelm the enemy defenses more lethal”. In this way, drones, groups of wireless weapons use artificial intelligence to coordinate each other and attack enemy positions.
Technology transforms individual drones into a single coordinated force. The system allows any compatible drone to join the swarm through a simple software update.
On 11 September the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Antonio Conservaexplained during an audition to the Chamber Defense Commission, how important it is “to have protective systems equally at low cost and defensive drones could be the answer. Today we are ready to stop the attacks using interceptor hunting and other very expensive tools, while we have to find solutions that are effective and low cost ».
A coordinated action will probably be needed with other members of the European Union. “We have to listen to the appeal of our Baltic friends and build a wall of drones,” said the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
In Europe, Poland, Baltic states and Finland, or the EU member states with Russia, have all announced plans to strengthen their borders, experts claim that this approach will be effective only if unified and based on common and completely integrated technologies.
