SpaceWar.com reports: “NATO commanders said they were drawing on lessons learned in the drone war over Ukraine to conduct Europe’s largest air defence exercise that ends in the Netherlands on Wednesday.

New alliance members Sweden and Finland took part for the first time in ‘Joint Project Optic Windmill’, a biennial 10-day virtual exercise involving 15 states to test NATO’s response to missile and drone attacks.

‘We’ve never encountered the number of threats that is now being seen on the battlefield,’ said commanding officer Brigadier-General Peter Gielen.

‘We learned from the Ukrainians how they act on that… and there is special attention being paid to drones in this exercise,’ Gielen told AFP on Tuesday at an air base in the southern Netherlands.

The Iranian-style Shahed exploding drone Moscow has deployed throughout its Ukraine campaign was of particular focus — and incorporated in the training, Gielen said…”