L’opinione pubblica polacca sostiene l’abbattimento degli oggetti volanti non identificati

(Sorry ET)

Its easy if you are Ukraine and your airspace is closed, but having active Air defenses and permission to shot with civilian activity in the sky is dangerous, and I know the military has tracking equipment and personal, but accidents happen, Israel is the only instance were that happens simultaneously, but its a well oiled machine by now.

>**As efforts continue to locate a suspected Russian drone that strayed into Poland last week, a poll conducted by the daily Rzeczpospolita has shown that the majority of Poles support shooting down unidentified objects that violate the country’s airspace.**

>On August 26, the Operational Command of the Armed Forces reported that an unidentified object, most likely a drone, had entered Polish airspace during Russia’s large-scale aerial attack on Ukraine.

>After flying 25 kilometers into Poland, the object then disappeared from the radar. Thought to have been a Shahed kamikaze drone, some analysts have claimed the object could have lowered its altitude and been flown out of Poland.

>This theory has not prevented Territorial Defense Forces from scouring the south-eastern Lubelskie region in an attempt to locate it.

>The incident has sparked fierce debate around the country with the military claiming that bad weather had made it impossible to identify.

>Prime Minister Donald Tusk defended the decision, saying: “It’s often a split second that determines if it is possible to check whether or not it is a civilian object.”

>He added: “Our allies recommend a certain restraint… I greatly appreciate the reasonable, balanced approach of our military. They are not interested in opening fire every time something moves in the sky.”

>Others, though, disagree. General Roman Polko, former commander of Poland’s elite GROM unit, said: “Even without visual identification, it is necessary to shoot down objects that are almost certainly Russian missiles and drones.”

>Polko also criticized peacetime procedures designed to ensure only operational commanders could authorize firing on flying objects.

>His thoughts appear to be supported by the public. In a poll commissioned by Rzeczpospolita, 58.5% of respondents said Poland should shoot down unidentified flying objects.

>Of the 800 people polled, 19.4% said they had no opinion, while only 22.1% backed the current strategy.

>Interestingly, more women (61%) then men (56%) backed a policy of destroying flying objects before they had been identified.

>This is not the first time that a Russian incursion into Polish airspace has made headline news. In December 2022, an unarmed cruise missile landed in a forest near the north-western city of Bydgoszcz – it was discovered only months later by a member of the public.

This is a bad idea, don’t start launching missiles at anything that shows up on radar without any explicit information regarding what it is. Your one miss communication or transponder failure from blowing up a passenger plane.

Confirm if its a Russian asset or aircraft once your sure then blow it out of the sky.

There’s no threat so far with those intrusions. If we will use high tech stick is only easy to reliably do that we will show our capabilities. Not smart.

Better approach would be letting F-16’s that are on site doing air policing to gun it down. Not as reliable but good training for pilots and air reconnaissance.