Overview
- Belgian military and police reported four drones over the Kleine-Brogel base on Sunday evening, with a police helicopter tracking them before they disappeared north toward the Netherlands.
- Defence Minister Theo Francken said larger, high-altitude models targeted the site, a jammer had no effect, and a combined air and ground pursuit lost contact after several kilometres.
- Francken described the overflights as a clear attack and suggested Russia could be behind them, though investigators have not identified any perpetrators.
- Belgium plans a meeting with local police to analyse the threat and seek the operators, while a separate drone was reported near Antwerp’s airport on Saturday.
- Germany saw brief flight suspensions at Berlin’s BER on Friday and at Bremen’s airport on Sunday night, underscoring wider European concerns over detection and counter-drone gaps.