Protection against aggersian aggersian Eastern Europe thinks of a “drone wall.” The idea is to use sensors, drones, and counter-drone systems arranged at the Russian border to prevent and destroy drones. The project is ambitious and requires no cooperation from many countries to take away.

Rene ehasalu, the cluster manager for the Astonian Defense Industry Association, tells Gizmodo that cooperation is key. “We want this to be an international project. Europe’s condition has changed over the past few years and even in the last few months. If we do not prepare this equation,” we seem to prepare this equation, “we say.

Ehasalu is a type of diplomat for the Industrial Industry in Estonia. By association, he coordinates cooperation between different companies and governments. He worked for getting defense companies across Europe on board the project.

The border between Eastern Europe and Russia is high and complex. It contains dark forests, cliffs, and snow mountains. It runs in many countries. Protecting it from an aggressive neighbor is a difficult problem. Last year, Estonia suggested the Interior Minister Lauremet suggested by a unique solution: Build a wall in the drone.

“As an activity on this scale, it is unique. The ability to workman and anti-drone is important for activities of our eastern neighbor’s influence,” Laanemet said last year When he announced the initiative.

Ehasalu told Gizmodo that Estonia and other countries were watching Russian war in Ukraine with terror. Using Moscow drones is more concerned. “We saw that Russians ignored what they were bombing and how they bombed,” he said. “The drones are one of the main articles of battlefield, which destroys civilian infrastructure … a chief lesson is used on the carpet. The drones here remain.”

Drones are cheap and effective and Russia plans to build thousands of them. A new Belarus factory, an ally Russian shaking in Eastern European countries looking for Russia, having a new factory it said build 100,000 drones at 2025. “The masses of quality,” says Ehasalu. “It is not possible to use millions (dollars) worth of rockets to get drones. You need some clear system to track them and take them.”

The specified system he suggested is a wall of sensors supported by unique anti-drone weapons. All it is dealing with AI to help target recognition and analysis. “People don’t see everything, don’t know everything. We’re tired and so on. AI helps us with that part,” says Ehasalu. “Yes, there will always be a person’s presence but we try to make it as possible. Then there are detraction sensations, the mobile customers, all things with joints.

Ehasalu said he got some defense companies aboard. One is rantelon, a company in Estonia built a jammer that stopped improvised explosive devices from detonate in Iraq. The plan is to use a similar device in Jam Drone.

Another boarding company is Estonian Startup Frankenburg Technologies, who works with cheap little missiles to knock down drones from heaven. The pitch is that Frankenburg can make cheaper cheaper and faster, make them a cheap solution for shooting quadcopters from heaven. The system Ukraine tried this year.

The wall has a long way to go before it is a reality. “No funds have not been spent. But what we see is that Europe has a lot of effort into defense,” says Ehasalu.

But Ehasalu is confident about the plan and its future. EU plans to spend $ 870 billion in defense over the next four years. Germany just voted for Exit the expenditure of defense from some of its budget rules. Experts think that country can spend $ 652 billion in the next 10 years of protection.

“This is a great amount of money … what we hope these allocations do not meet or lose the capabilities you can keep helpers to prevent strength and commitment,” says ehasalu.

Estonie and many other Eastern European countries and Ehasalu said that the Russian memory rule and oppression is a strong inspiring cause. “There are real times..I know Russians and see by their agenda. We’re always ready,” he said. “We don’t fear. Our nation is motivated. We are one of the great examples of what the collapse of the Soviet Union can do for a country if you make the right choices. We are always ready but we never let the fear take over.”