HEADLINE: Russian Probes, European Escalation Rhetoric, and the Threat of Drone Swarms GUEST NAME: General Blaine Holt 50 WORD SUMMARY: Russian aircraft regularly probe the Alaskan ADIZ, met by US F-16s. Standardized procedures minimize miscalculation ris
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Blaine Holt, General United States Air Force retired, |
| 0:06.9 | helping me to understand air engagement, air provocations, air diplomacy, especially in what |
| 0:13.7 | appears to be the first time it was, the second time it was, this time it's enemy action. |
| 0:23.7 | Russian provocation not only along the NATO frontier, but in the American frontier as well, but we go to the NATO frontier now. Headline, |
| 0:30.5 | Russia steps up provocations in Europe, alarming leaders. European officials fear that Moscow |
| 0:36.0 | is escalating its antagonism of Europe as U.S. |
| 0:39.0 | support recedes. Election interference in Moldova. It includes Russia flying drones into Poland and |
| 0:46.1 | Romania again and again, so much so that the drones are now a major threat to our European |
| 0:53.5 | allies. And they're talking about something as fantastic |
| 0:56.6 | as a drone wall. The Financial Times reporting last week, the U.S., the EU, will draw plans to |
| 1:03.8 | build and help finance interlinked drone defenses across the entire continent's borders |
| 1:08.7 | and critical infrastructure, according to the defense commissioner of the block. |
| 1:14.1 | EU defense ministers held a hastily arranged meeting on Friday after Russian manned and unmanned aircraft |
| 1:20.1 | repeatedly crossed into European airspace in recent weeks. They call it a drone wall. |
| 1:25.8 | Blaine, what do you know of, What does anybody know of a drone wall? |
| 1:28.9 | These packages were surveillance when they crossed into Poland. |
| 1:33.3 | Drone wall sounds a magnificent enterprise, but is it believable? |
| 1:38.5 | So there is the technology now, and I think what they mean by drone wall, is these massive arrays of microwave |
| 1:45.7 | mobile vehicles, and they look like a wall. They literally look like a wall, big panel, |
| 1:50.9 | and it's up in the sky, can be moved around. And so when you pick up the drones with your |
| 1:56.7 | radars, then you will find and identify the frequency that they're operating on. You will jam that |
| 2:02.2 | and send the drone right to the ground. That's a good way to get it drones. And I think that they would |
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