Washington Examiner
If in fact the Russian drone incursion was a test of NATO’s defenses in Poland, the Russians got some valuable data about how unprepared the NATO allies are to counter a sustained drone assault.
“Russia is likely attempting to gauge both Poland’s and NATO’s capabilities and reactions in the hopes of applying lessons learned to future conflict scenarios with the NATO alliance,” the Institute for the Study of War said in its latest assessment of the war in Ukraine. “Russia is likely trying to probe Poland’s and NATO’s defensive capabilities and reaction times while observing their command and control (C2) structure in action. Russia likely also aimed to test the interoperability of NATO member states working to neutralize a threat in NATO airspace.”
