Among the new weapons that Italy could send to Ukraine there would also be a cybernetic system capable of "stealing" Russian drones and bringing them to land in friendly territory. The system is called Guardian and its integration into other antidrone systems was presented last September by Leonardo. The Italian company was involved in a British program to protect against hostile drones and managed to combine the Ninja electronic technology patented by an American aviation laboratory with the Orcus antidrone system of the British Royal Air Force.
How does it work
In a nutshell, the Ninja system is able to electronically take command of an enemy drone and its integration with the English Orcus - in addition to Leonardo's Guardian system - provides soldiers (actually real electronic operators) with possibilities. of intervention hitherto unthinkable. Guardian, in fact, emits a very precise long-range electronic noise capable of reaching a dot in the sky, while the Ninja software produces a targeted cyber effect in the short range capable of taking control of a drone and flying it to a safe place.
The weapon system requires qualified personnel to be used to its full potential but, surprisingly, Kiev is a popular European university of electronics and therefore the Ukrainian army appears to be equipped. The Kiev artillery, moreover, is already using sophisticated Gps ammunition (two-meter errors over 30-kilometer launches) for cannons supplied by the Americans, Canadians, Dutch and French. The new artillery available to Kiev are assisted by radars that make it possible to identify the guns used by the Moscow artillery. Russian batteries, once identified, can be silenced because Western howitzers have a longer range than Russian ones.
The other weapons
Among the new heavy weapons that Italy could send to Kiev, the M-109 self-propelled gun with a range of 18 kilometers stands out. It is a dated weapon system, of American origin, but Italy maintains a certain amount of it in efficiency, albeit for some years parked in special deposits.
Meanwhile, the list of NATO equipment sent to Ukraine is getting stronger every day: ten thousand latest generation anti-tank missiles, two thousand anti-aircraft Stinger, over 200 Soviet-made T-72 tanks sold to Kiev by Poland and Slovakia, cannons self-propelled, multiple rocket launchers. The cargo planes of NATO air forces are literally clogging up Polish and Romanian airports. It is no coincidence that the Russians bomb with precision missiles almost every day the bridge over the River Tisza, on the border between Romania and Ukraine, rebuilt in the early 2000s to connect the Ukrainian city of Solotvino to the Romanian city of Sighetu. A busy bridge with heavy trucks at night.
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