Overview
- Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken confirmed multiple drone incursions over Kleine-Brogel on consecutive nights, saying the base’s detection systems registered the aircraft.
- Francken reported that jamming did not work and a police helicopter with ground units pursued a drone before losing it after several kilometers; he described the craft as larger models flying high and deliberately targeting the base.
- On Sunday evening, military and police observed four drones that were tracked north toward the Netherlands, according to the local mayor cited by Belga.
- Authorities have opened investigations and plan a coordination meeting with police next week, while NATO directed inquiries to Belgian officials; open-source reports long suggest—without official confirmation—that U.S. tactical nuclear weapons are stored at the base.
- Germany saw related disruptions with a roughly one-hour halt at Bremen Airport on Sunday and a near two-hour suspension at Berlin’s BER on Friday, with operations now normal and no attribution yet established, as some recent European cases have been linked by authorities to Russia.