Military Fighting Drones (Photo source Mykhailo Pavlenko, Dreamstime.com)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he suspects that Russia is behind many of the drones observed in Germany this weekend, including those who disturbed dozens of flights at Munich airport, according to Reuters.
“Our assumption is that Russia is behind the majority of these flights by drones,” he said.
Friedrich Merz added that the frequency of incursions into the European airspace is unprecedented, even compared to the Cold War period, but that none of the drones observed so far was armed. They were all in recognition missions, he said.
Prior to Merz's declets, Germany's defense minister, Boris Pistorius, urged calm after drone alerts from Munich and asked for several prerogatives for the regional police and critical infrastructures to fight this type of incident.
“Of course, I understand insecurity”, but so far, the observed drones “have not been a concrete threat,” said the minister in an interview on Sunday for the Economic newspaper Handelsblatt. “We have the means to react, even if we do not yet have all the capabilities we want,” he added.
Air traffic was resumed on Saturday at Munich airport, which also reported some minor “repercussions” on the flight schedule on Sunday. The airport had suspended its traffic on Friday for the second consecutive night following a new drone alert.
In recent weeks, airports in several airports in Europe have reported the presence of drones and have registered flights or even cancels because of this. The Danish and Polish authorities rapidly pointed to Russia for these incidents, but Moscow denied the accusations.
