NATO to boost eastern flank ammunition stockpiles, deploy robotic defences
Jan 25, 2026
Brussels [Belgium], January 25: NATO plans to significantly expand weapons and ammunition stockpiles along its eastern flank and to set up a new defensive zone using robotic and automated technology, according to a senior NATO officer.
The measures are aimed at strengthening deterrence against Russia, Brigadier General Thomas Lowin told the Sunday edition of the German newspaper Welt. Under a new multi-layered defence concept, NATO would seek to slow or halt an attacker at an early stage using high-tech systems.
Along the alliance's borders with Russia and Belarus, a zone is to be created that would rely heavily on surveillance as well as remotely operated or semi-automated systems, which an adversary would first have to overcome before advancing further.
Lowin, deputy chief of staff for operations at NATO's land command in Izmir, told the newspaper that surveillance along the eastern flank would rely on systems collecting data on the ground, in the air, in space and in the digital domain. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
