German airport drone incident and Russian denial
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If the security gaps are that obvious, is it possible a domestic actor staged this to force a budget increase for airport infrastructure?
We saw this same pattern during the 2019 Gatwick disruptions. Many of those reports were based on anecdotal sightings rather than recovered hardware.
I disagree that this is like Gatwick because the German authorities actually recovered an explosives-packed device. That physical evidence changes the nature of the threat.
Is this really a test of NATO cohesion? It seems more like a targeted warning to Berlin specifically, given their current internal debates over munitions shipments.
This follows the same pattern as the GPS jamming spikes over the Baltic last quarter. Those were dismissed as technical glitches until the frequency aligned perfectly with naval exercises.
The GPS issues are a headache for logistics, but the real problem is that airport perimeter security is designed for people, not small aircraft. A fence is useless against a payload that comes from above.
commercial drone flight logs usually reveal the launch point within a few hundred meters.