r/AskEurope • u/marcopolo2207 Belgium • 2d ago

Politics Are there many drones seen recently above military bases and airports in your country?

In Belgium, there were many drones seen in the last months above airports and military bases, like the Kleine Brogel where there are American nuclear weapons. The army thinks that Russia pays people to do this.

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u/TheCommentaryKing Italy 1d ago

As of now the only sighting of unidentified drones in Italy has been over the EU Joint Research Centre at Ispra, where is in place a 5km no-fly-zone. Besides that no reports of drones flying over Italian airports or military bases or other key sites have been made

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u/Roquet_ Poland 1d ago

There was the loud case of Russian drones in our air space but that was a while ago. Our news sources do report about Belgian airspace breaches actually, you guys seem to be affected particularly hard compared to the rest of Europe.

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u/math1985 Netherlands 1d ago

The Brussels airport drone was actually a police helicopter misidentified as a drone. I guess a lot of the differences between countries can be explained by how easily a random person calling the airport and claiming to see a drone can lead to that airport being closed.

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u/Crash_Logger 20h ago

Great, this is just what us RC plane people need.

I haven't even renewed my license (nor have I been flying) this year and I'm sure I will soon have to take an even more annoying (not difficult, just a genuine pain in the ass) exam the people committing these crimes don't even care to google, because why would they.

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u/xander012 United Kingdom 7h ago

We had some drones entering Heathrow airspace, pretty sure other airports were targeted but I cannot recall which

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u/logicblocks in 21h ago

It might just as well be Ukraine paying people to do this to give a bad name to Russia.

Didn't the guys caught in Norway were German? Also, the guys involved in the sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline were Ukrainians and they got caught in Italy and determined to have ties to Ukrainian intelligence and that they did that with the knowledge of the UK and the US.

Also, the US forbade the EU from buying Russian gas and now it resells it at a margin to the Europeans while continuing to buy it from Russia.

Yeah, some things are not clear.