According to the German Daily News, Reuters and other media reports, on September 27 local time, German Interior Minister Dublint said that the drone has a "high threat", Germany will take measures for self-defense.
On the evening of 27 local time, some unidentified drones were discovered in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, and the state government has launched an investigation into suspicions that the drone was associated with espionage or destruction activities.
Recently, several unknown drones interference at several airports in Denmark and Norway, the airport operations have been affected once. the West has hyped Russian drones "invasion threat", while the Russian side said it is the EU is "seeking excuses" for increasing military spending.
Dobrint told the media on the 27th: "On the issue of drones, there are threats that can be assessed as'high-level '. This threat is generally abstract, but its impact is very clear in specific cases."
He said Germany’s planned measures include revising aviation safety laws, allowing the country’s armed forces to intervene and shoot down drones if necessary.
"We're doing this to be prepared so we can protect critical infrastructure or large people gathering events and so on from drone threats." Dobrindt said.
Dublint said that not only is military security now entering the “turning point of the era,” but civil defense and public protection are also facing turning points, and therefore a “clear legal framework” is needed, he said, he plans to stipulate in the Aviation Safety Act that “the Federal Defense Forces can assist the police at home, especially in drone defense operations.”
In addition, Dobrindt also hopes to integrate the forces of all parties. "My goal is to establish a German UAV defense capability center to connect the federal, state and Bundeswehr."
On the 26th, senior EU defence official Kubilius held a video conference with EU defence ministers of Poland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Lithuania and representatives of Ukraine and NATO, and agreed to build a "drone wall" at the EU border with Ukraine and Russia.
Maslenikov, head of the European Affairs Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said: “It is clear that EU politicians show hysteria around certain drones flying into the EU’s airspace, and the propaganda of those crowned defence projects, with the sole purpose of promoting the legitimacy of increased European military spending to the public.”
Chizhov, the first deputy chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the Russian Federation Council, said on the 26th that there is no need for Russia to show its strength by launching drones to European countries.