Russian Industry Group Calls for Unified Drone Defense at Industrial Sites

The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) has called for a unified approach to protecting industrial sites from drone attacks, according to the organization's president, Alexander Shokhin.

Shokhin said that measures such as protective netting combined with some form of kinetic counter-drone systems would be considered a sufficient level of protection for industrial facilities. The comments point to growing concern among Russian industrial leaders about the vulnerability of factories and other key sites to drone strikes.

A Coordinated Industry Response

The call for a unified approach suggests that individual companies may currently be adopting inconsistent or insufficient measures to guard against drone threats, prompting the RSPP to push for a more standardized response across the industrial sector. Kinetic counter-drone systems typically refer to physical interception methods, as opposed to electronic jamming or other non-physical countermeasures.

The RSPP is one of Russia's most prominent business associations, representing industrialists and entrepreneurs across a wide range of sectors. Shokhin's remarks reflect the organization's role in advocating for policy and security measures on behalf of its members.

Further details on how such a unified protection standard might be implemented, or which government bodies might be involved in coordinating it, were not immediately available.