NATO spent billions of dollars on systems that neglected the fact of the development of electronic warfare (EW) in Russia.
WB Group Vice President Adam Bartosiewicz stated this in the Biznes klasa podcast.
And now the Alliance is effectively making up for lost time.
In a conversation with the host, Adam Bartosiewicz elaborated on the idea that the United States invested and continues to invest billions of dollars in programs that were later shut down.
“Here, I would like to mention this interesting fact. I ask all my foreign interlocutors whether they understand why Russians have not developed GPS-guided munitions,” said the Vice President of WB Group.
In response, the host said that he didn’t understand, and Bartosiewicz continued:
“And we spent billions of dollars on this. So what’s the answer? Well, we just did it stupidly. Because we should have assumed that electronic warfare was something that would be one of the obvious dimensions of a conflict with Russia.”
The host agreed that there are already constant navigation problems in northern Poland, and this has also made shipping in the Baltic Sea dangerous.
Adam Bartosiewicz pointed out that to gain an advantage over the enemy, it is necessary to disorient them or make their systems non-functional.
“I have seen Russian drones with GPS jamming countermeasure systems, dated back to 2016, which is before the so-called full-scale invasion, although it is hard to call what happened in 2014 anything other than a full-scale invasion,” said the Vice President of WB Group.
In his opinion, NATO countries are now effectively making up for lost time in countering electronic warfare, but the funds already spent cannot be recovered.
“Well, the vision that electronic warfare would become a key dimension of the Russian conflict has guided decisions for decades. It’s just that we did not want to see it. And NATO created a number of different systems that neglected this fact,” concluded Adam Bartosiewicz.
