Proposal No. 4 — each Baltic state should establish at least one specialized drone brigade. In Ukraine, one drone brigade consists of 300 drone crews. “These are crews operating drones with different missions,” Magyar said.
To explain why only the integrated use of different types of drones against different kinds of targets makes it possible to fight Russian forces effectively, Magyar has coined the term “borscht recipe.”
“This ‘borscht recipe’ is a list of different types of crews operating at different depths, using different systems, and positioned at different distances from one another,” Magyar said.
Ukraine’s most famous dish, borscht, is not complete if any essential ingredient is missing. According to Magyar, the same is true of drone forces: the system does not work if even one component is missing.
In wartime, Magyar says, a brigade built according to the “borscht recipe” model, with 300 crews, can cover a 100-kilometer stretch of front. In peacetime, when its main task is surveillance and maintaining readiness, the same brigade could cover 500 to 600 kilometers, he said.
The best option, however, would be for the armed forces of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to establish separate drone forces, as Ukraine has already done and Russia has now done as well.