Drone attacks leave Denmark exposed

Done -air aircraft accidents and military bases throughout Gotland, West Denmark, did not cause any harm or harm – however they revealed the country’s defenses as vulnerable to attack.

In the era of the hybrid war, there is a feeling of embarrassment in Denmark – a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) – to the point that its critical infrastructure has become at risk.

Aalborg and Billund airports were closed on Wednesday night, while drones were seen at Esbjerg, Sonderborg and Skrydstrup. Aalborg also works as a military base, and Skrydstrup is home to some Air Force F-16 warplanes. Done -aircraft were seen On top of Gotland Dragon in Holshto.

Since then, there have been reports that the police have investigated the activities of drones on the oil and gas platforms in Denmark in the North Sea, and near the central port of Korsur.

Police and the national media said on Friday that Alburg Airport briefly closed on Thursday night after another vision to watch drones.

The question now faces the country’s army is how to respond.

None of the drones – defense leaders decided that he was not safer, but this is not a long -term solution.

Denmark, of course, is not alone.

Norway, Estonia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania have been subjected to hybrid war in recent weeks. They are all on the eastern NATO wing.

Estonia and Poland acquired Article 4 of NATO this month after that Russian war planes entered an Estonian air area for 12 minutesAnd about 20 birds of Russian aircraft that violated the Polish air field and dropped.

Denmark said that the “professional actor” was responsible for the drones she saw, and left her in that.

Article 4 collects the defensive alliance together to consult when it is “regional integrity, political independence, or security … threatened.”

The Danish government is currently evaluating whether it will also call it.

This is a dangerous moment for Denmark, and he called the Olaya from copper – the government, defense and police – with a press conference with a press conference with a press conference at a press conference, where the Defense Minister TROELS LUND POULSEN said it appears “methodological”, because of the number of targeted sites.

He said: “This is what I would like to introduce as a hybrid attack.”

Russia has not been excluded – which is explained by Prime Minister Miti Friedrixen after the disruption of a drone on Monday night on Copenhagen.

Moscow “rejects firmly” any participation, and its embassy in Copenhagen has condemned the accidents as “a provocation similar.”

However, Friedrixen undoubtedly the danger and said only last week that Russia “will be a threat to Europe and Denmark for years to come.”

No one has yet caused any damage, because drones left their path.

Defense chief Michael Hildgard simply put: “When you shoot something in the air, something is going down again.”

An example of this was when The roof of the house was destroyed in Werei, East PolandAnd according to what was reported by a missile fired by the NATO plane.

Gotland police said they would try to shoot down drones if it can be done safely, and the army has made it clear that it is ready to do this on military facilities, and depends on “assessing the specific threat and the potential consequences of the crowd.”

But it hasn’t happened yet.

Kjeld Jensen, from the Center for Pilots at the University of South Denmark, accepts that it is embarrassing that the weaknesses in Denmark are naked – but it is believed that the police and the army have acted appropriately.

“I will not drop drones if they are above an urban area or an airport,” he says, where they must go down, and there will be fuel or other batteries that create a fire, and it is also a danger that you must take into account. “

“You need to decide whether it is more dangerous than leaving it,” says Peter Vigo Jacobsen, of the Royal Danish Defense College. “But it is not a sustainable situation and we need to reach ideas.”

Denmark’s cautious approach is significantly different from Poland since Russia’s incursions of drones there on September 10.

This week, Polish Foreign Minister Radik Sikorsky warned against Moscow at the United Nations: “If there is a missile or another plane crossing our lands without permission, intentionally or by chance, and destroying it on NATO lands, do not come here to the complaint. You have been warned.”

What Denmark lacks and many of his neighbors is the type of tools they need to shoot down drones.

The government recently announced plans for “integrated air defense”, as well as investing in long -term microbiology to strike enemy lands.

But this is not a little use of Denmark’s defenses at the present time.

“From an engineering perspective, it is much easier to build a drone can fly instead of building something that can prevent them from flying,” as South Denmark.

On Friday, Denmark will join many NATO allies and Ukraine to discuss the idea of ​​establishing a “drone”, which was proposed by European Commission President Ursula von der Lin to protect the eastern borders of the European Union.

The drones that they will discuss are likely to focus on the type of armed weapons that have reached the Polish airspace instead of unarmed drones with the bright lights seen over Denmark.

The goal is to create an early detection system, although it did not help again in Denmark overnight if drones were launched locally on Gotland.

If Russia is behind the latest drone, despite its denial, then the standards of hybrid war, this process appears to be successful.

The airports were briefly closed, the military sites in Denmark were made to look weak, and senior ministers were forced to give a quick press conference to calm public concerns.

But it gave the Denmarks a new awakening call. The police raised the level of their crises and the Minister of Defense of the country, which faces a new fact, spoke.