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CONSTANTA, Romania \u2014 After months of delays, NATO has adopted its first counter-drone<\/a> doctrine, testing its tenets in an exercise along the Black Sea shore that was marred by real-life interference wafting across the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The focus of the Ramstein Legacy drill, held June 3-14, was on developing the alliance\u2019s integrated air and missile defense with an additional eye on <\/b>combating Class 1 unmanned aerial system threats \u2014 a reference to small, mini and micro drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participating units hailed from Romania<\/a>, Germany, Portugal, Hungary, France, Turkey and Poland, supported by British and Finnish fighter jets. In addition, three companies were invited to introduce some of their counter-drone equipment, including the U.S.-based firm Echodyne, the French CS Group, and German electronics specialist Rohde & Schwarz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClass 1 UAS have become one of the most important threats we observe at the moment in military conflicts. Where for many years having air superiority was one of the pillars of the NATO doctrine, we have seen recently that\u2019s no longer the case,\u201d said Cristian Coman, chief scientist at the joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance center at NATO\u2019s Communications and Information Agency (NCIA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the first day of the training, participants were asked to get familiar with the capabilities of the systems at the exercise, including electronic warfare equipment, radars, and command-and-control systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following days were focused on practical exercises and hands-on training, with each scenario increasing in difficulty. Part of the personnel involved in this segment were officers from the Italian C-UAS Center of Excellence, who performed the job of the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are here acting in the role of the red team in this exercise, where we are the threat the trainees need to identify and counteract. We are flying the drones, which are common civilian ones,\u201d Italian Navy Lt. Cmdr. Federico Fugazzotto told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the models displayed included the American-made Parrot Disco first-person-view drone as well as two Chinese-made DJI types. Exercise participants were instructed to use their detection equipment for picking up the drones\u2019 electronic signatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Fugazzotto, increasingly complex scenarios entailed flights of varying lengths, hiding the drones\u2019 points of departure on the ground, and attacking with multiple systems at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crimea mirage<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

As the training unfolded, experts with NCIA confirmed to Defense News that GPS spoofing was detected and affected some of the drones, though officials did not name the source. The interference method feeds false coordinates to drone navigation systems in an effort to crash or disorient them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I had the hand-held device from the drone, where you basically have the controller, my hand device would \u2018be\u2019 on a foreign location in Crimea,\u201d Mario Behn, the principal scientist at NCIA, told Defense News. \u201cBut the drone was still here, which of course is physically impossible, as it is a huge range,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On both days of Ramstein Legacy, data provided by the website GPSJam showed a high level of GPS interference that encompassed all of Constanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military personnel here were vague about anti-jamming techniques and equipment used to mitigate interference, citing security concerns in revealing Western countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Counter-drone equipment is set up during a NATO drill near Constanta, Romania, on June 13, 2024. (Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo\/Staff)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The extensive level of jamming was also apparent in the area surrounding the nearby Mihail Kogalniceanu air base<\/a>, where Finnish F\/A-18 fighter jets and British Eurofighters were deployed. The exercise marked Finland\u2019s first foreign deployment for NATO since joining the alliance in April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked if he was used to flying amid this amount of jamming, Lt. Col. Rami Lindstr\u00f6m, commander of the Finnish F\/A-18 detachment in Romania, acknowledged the GPS interference but appeared unfazed about it affecting the equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a lot of reports in Finland about the same kind of jamming, so we are used to that. But the F-18 is a warhorse and is resistant against that,\u201d Lindstr\u00f6m told Defense News in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can say we know our neighbor and we like to share this knowledge with our allies,\u201d the Finnish official added, referring to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to school<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, NCIA established an academy in Oeiras, Portugal, to provide training on NATO systems devoted to communications, air command and control, and cybersecurity. With drones omnipresent in today\u2019s military thinking, the school\u2019s emphasis is about to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur idea would be to add a counter-UAS curriculum with educational courses followed by enhanced practical training, which would be very easy to integrate at the Portugal academy,\u201d Behn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some hurdles to that end, however, especially when it comes to standardizing hands-on training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one, the drone arsenals of NATO countries are so diverse that finding cross-cutting training approaches will be tricky. That is in addition to the ceaseless cat-and-mouse game of buying improved drones and superior countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProcurement processes take years, except we don\u2019t have years to defend against those small drone threats,\u201d Coman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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