Among the new programs announced within the framework of PESCO, the structured cooperation program of the European Union, the TWISTER program, for TIMELY WARNING AND INTERCEPTION WITH SPACE-BASED THEATER SURVEILLANCE, is undoubtedly the most ambitious from a technological point of view. Led by France, in cooperation with Finland, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal, TWISTER aims to develop an anti-missile solution intended to counteract so-called emerging threats, namely threats that cannot be addressed today by existing anti-missile systems, so as to provide a European base for the ballistic missile defense program of NATO.
We have already repeatedly reported on these emerging threats, whether they are missiles designed to evolve by defeating current interception standards, like the Iskander missile, hypersonic weapons like Kinzhal missiles, or maneuvering hypersonic atmospheric reentry vehicles, such as the Russian Avangard, whose the first two copies are being installed. These weapon systems were designed to respond to the Anti-Missile Shield deployed by NATO, particularly in Romania, Poland and on ships in the North Sea, considered by Russia to be a threat to the balance of deterrent forces (forgetting in passing that Russia, too, has developed and deployed numerous anti-ballistic missile technologies).
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[…] within the new European Permanent Structured Cooperation, or PESCO, to design a new anti-ballistic system capable of countering emerging threats, including missiles…. A year later, Berlin decided to join the program, after the program was abandoned […]