Overview
- Germany’s interior minister called for a shift from purely defensive responses to hybrid threats targeting companies and critical infrastructure.
- The government intends to create a legal framework enabling targeted countermeasures that can disrupt or destroy attackers’ infrastructure, including servers located abroad.
- A national drone-defense center is slated for mid-December to pool capabilities of the Federal Police, the Federal Criminal Police Office, and state police.
- Dobrindt said there are indications some drone sightings originate from a Russian ‘shadow fleet’ and warned the country is undergoing a resilience ‘stress test.’
- Months of drone incidents at European airports and military facilities have prompted parallel EU efforts to build more robust drone and air-defense systems.