Overview
- Official data show 16 drone incidents in the first half of 2025 versus 10 in all of 2024, with a pronounced shift toward sensitive locations.
- Eleven sightings in early 2025 occurred over Bundeswehr facilities, up from a single such case in 2024, including repeated flights near kasernes in Wartburgkreis and Kyffhäuserkreis.
- Police opened seven investigations in 2025 after two in 2024, identifying three pilots and seizing one drone, while most operators remain unknown.
- Bund and Länder established a joint drone defense center in mid-December, which Interior Minister Georg Maier called an important step toward coordinated countermeasures.
- Thuringia named a police contact to brief critical-infrastructure operators and intensified exchanges with the Bundeswehr and intelligence services, as security officials warned about potential use of low-level “disposable agents”; nationally, the BKA logged more than 1,000 suspicious drone flights in 2025.