Germany Has Created A Special Unit To Combat Drones
1- 6.12.2025, 17:14
After fixing a record number of UAVs near airports.
Germany's Interior Ministry this week created a new anti-drone unit tasked with protecting critical infrastructure, including airports, writes Bloomberg. In addition, the agency announced the creation of the Joint Drone Protection Center, which will coordinate the work of police forces of individual German states with the federal center and the army on threat assessment and technology development.
The German authorities took such measures amid a record increase in the number of incidents with unidentified drones appearing near the country's airports. More than 190 such cases were reported from the beginning of the year through the end of October, state air traffic control company Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) said. "Aviation has been facing this problem from time to time for years, but it has never become as serious as in recent months. Today we are facing real threats when someone purposely launches a drone into an airport so that it is forced to close," said Joachim Lang, director general of the German Aviation Association (BDL).
Drones, often flown by amateurs unfamiliar with airspace regulations, used to occasionally disturb airports. However, the situation is different now, with professional large UAVs, including those up to three meters long, being recorded in some recent incidents, the knowledgeable interlocutor said. Earlier, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Moscow was behind "most" drone incidents and that the activity was aimed at "testing us."
A number of German airports have already implemented rudimentary drone defense systems, but their coverage is far from complete. This week, German authorities announced they were equipping eight of the country's most important air havens with UAV defense radio systems. Also, to avoid disrupting the work of aircraft electronics with REB systems, German airports can use physical networks that protect against drones, said Hans Peter Stuch, an expert at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics.
For just over a month, the German capital's main airport, Berlin-Brandenburg, has been closed because of unknown drones that could not be tracked. Before that, in October, unidentified drones twice in two days interrupted the work of Munich airport, the second largest air hub in Germany.
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