Mark Rutte

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Bloomberg Talks · NATO’s Rutte Talks Airspace Incursions, Russia-Ukraine War · 25 Sep 2025 podcast

And by the way, I was very proud of the Dutch fighter pilot Jas Wiek, who took down, or two weeks ago now, who took down these drones in Poland, an F-35 pilot.

And it's exactly what we need to do.

Because first of all, we have to prioritize the safety of our people.

But you're right, it is not sustainable that you would take down $1,000 or $2,000 costing drones with missiles which cost you maybe half a million or a million dollars.

So this is why our Supreme Island Commander in Europe, together with the colleague working on transformation, all of us in NATO are rapidly developing the technologies, learning from the Ukrainians.

And we will start to apply that new technology over the coming weeks and months to make sure that next to the more traditional way to deal with this, we also have this drone interceptor technology at our hands.

I don't think so, because we have this joint center together with Ukraine, JTEC, which is based in Poland, where we take all the lessons from the Ukraine war.

Ukraine being in war is two or three weeks ahead of the Russians, and they, at an incredible speed, innovate during warfare, so we can learn from them.

We will adapt as soon as possible.

In the meantime, if there are drones in our airspace, we will still take them down.

We will protect our people.

Well, the Ukrainians are proud, of course, of what they can do and also to help us supplying that technology.

But you're right, of course, they have to prioritize their own safety.

But we have also other ways, of course, to get our hands on this type of kit.

So we're working on that, also developing, where necessary, the technology ourselves.

So this is all being processed now.

So we are really stepping up.

And this is why we launched Eastern Sentry last week.

Eastern Sentry is there to move from air policing to air defense on the entire eastern flank with the traditional means.

But also figuring in as soon as possible these latest anti-drone technologies.

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