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NATO plans to strengthen its defenses on Europe’s borders with Russia in the next two years, including creating a “automated zone” defense equipped with almost no soldiers, Brigadier General Thomas Lowin, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at NATO Land Command in Izmir (Turkey) said on Saturday in an interview with the German Sunday newspaper, World on Sunday.

This defense plan will include a defense zone that the enemy must cross before advancing, a “sort of hot zone”he added. In detail, sensors will identify enemy forces and activate defense systems, such as armed drones, partially autonomous combat vehicles, unmanned ground robots, as well as automated air and missile defense devices, specifies the general. However, the final decision to use these weapons will remain “always under human responsibility”a welly M. Lowin.

The sensors having to cover an area of ​​several thousand kilometers will be located “on the ground, in space, in cyberspace or in the air”according to Mr. Lowin. They will be able to collect data on “the movements or use of weapons by the adversary” in order to inform “all NATO countries in real time”he explained.

It will still be a matter of strengthening existing arms stocks, maintaining troops stationed “at the same level” that today, finally to use dematerialized computing (cloud) and AI to control the system, he concluded.

The first elements are already being tested as part of pilot projects in Poland and Romania, and the entire NATO system should be implemented if possible by the end of 2027, according to information from the World on Sunday.