Germany plans anti-sabotage shield after airport drone attack, Bild reports
Berlin will expand mobile anti-drone units and create a Cyberdome as officials cite 747 suspicious drone flights and rising sabotage cases.
- On Sunday, Bild and Sonntag reported that Germany is planning a broad package of measures to strengthen defenses against drone attacks and Russian sabotage following a failed airport attack last month.
- Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt stated Russia's hybrid attacks have become a part of daily reality, asserting, "These attacks will increase, but we can defend and protect ourselves."
- Expanding police mobile drone defense capabilities, the German interior ministry plans to station counter-drone units in cities to protect airspace above critical transport hubs and government districts.
- The government intends to establish a "cyberdome" involving digital sensors to detect hacking, while expanding AI-supported technologies and biometric facial recognition at transport hubs to identify suspected attackers.
- Companies operating critical infrastructure gain authority to actively fend off drones, while Russia denied involvement in the airport attack, calling allegations of operations in Western Europe "anti-Russian action.
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Germany is planning a comprehensive package of measures to strengthen its defenses against drone attacks, cyber-invasions and other forms of Russian sabotage, after a failed drone attack at an airport last month, said on Sunday a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior. In an interview with the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag", who was the first to report the plans, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said that the hybrid attacks in Russia have b…
"The hybrid attacks of Russia are a daily reality," said German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.
The hybrid attacks of Russia, which include drones loaded with explosives directed at airports, agents operating in our cities, cyberattacks to our networks and sabotage against our infrastructures, are a daily reality, said Germany's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, quoted in the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag".
The German government has forged security plans to strengthen the country's defenses against Russia's "hybrid attacks" following the recent drone incident at Leipzig airport, which Berlin has blamed on Moscow, with the subsequent denial of the Eurasian country, which has called on the German authorities to submit evidence to support these claims.Continue reading....
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