Report warns Rus­sia using shad­ow fleet to probe NATO drone defens­es

Report warns Russia using shadow fleet to probe NATO drone defenses

As NATO allies pre­pare to meet in Turkey, at the top of their agen­da will be drone war­fare and Rus­si­a’s test­ing of the NATO alliance.Using its shad­ow fleet of old sanc­tion-bust­ing ships, Rus­sia appears to have launched drones at Euro­pean mil­i­tary bases and air­ports to test the reac­tion time of NATO allies and their air defens­es, accord­ing to a new report pub­lished by the Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute of Strate­gic Stud­ies, or IISS.Between August 2024 and Feb­ru­ary 2026, 144 sus­pect­ed drones were record­ed near sen­si­tive mil­i­tary and nuclear sites in Ger­many, France, Bel­gium, the Nether­lands, the UK, and Den­mark, and over Amer­i­can air bases in the UK in Novem­ber 2024.UKRAINE’S BATTLEFIELD IS TRANSFORMING THE FUTURE OF NATO“There’s no doubt in my …