Overview
- Media reports say the new unit will begin in December with 130 additional Bundespolizei officers.
- Teams will be deployed around major airports, in Berlin, and at security-sensitive sites, with nationwide mobility via helicopters.
- The government is allocating €100 million on a short-term basis for radar detection systems, jamming technology, and interceptor drones.
- Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt described drones and rising cyberattacks as elements of a new hybrid threat requiring a decisive response.
- Dobrindt previously signaled a focus on signal jamming in October, and a jammer is cited as part of the unit's equipment, according to Bild am Sonntag as relayed by Die Zeit.