La Germania consentirà alla polizia di abbattere i droni
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/germany-allow-police-shoot-down-drones-2025-10-08/
di MagnificentCat
La Germania consentirà alla polizia di abbattere i droni
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/germany-allow-police-shoot-down-drones-2025-10-08/
di MagnificentCat
14 commenti
Gut so!
It doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Considering how much training goes into being able to accurately shoot something travelling at 130kph and the size of a duck, I can’t imagine there’ll be a lot of trained operators.
It’s the sort of thing where you may want to create a volunteer group of pheasant and duck hunters, although they will need to update the dog training. You don’t want Fido bringing you back a drone with a grenade attached to it.
Duh.
Fucking finally. Years too late though. But it’s a start.
Now. To really get rid of the problem we should just bomb the shit out of the country were the drones are coming from.
You know, fight the source, not the symptom.
Next in the news: “German Police doesn’t have means to shoot a drone down”
Shoot with what exactly? Glock 17?
Shoot ( in this case arrest ) the archer, not the arrow.
all the people that are saying „finally“, how tf should the police shoot down a drone?
With that clause “shooting them down in cases of **acute threat or serious harm**.” I predict that most likely nothing will change. Unless of course Putin feels emboldened to such a degree by this total lack of any **real** response that he starts sending FPV drones with bombs or machine-guns.
One of the big issues so far was that the law would have, from what I understand, made three different branches responsible for taking down drones, depending on where they were seen. General airspace: Local police. Military Airspace: Military. And critical infrastructure (among others: trainstations): Federal police. A typical german bureaucratic nightmare.
Good on us that we finally get things straightened out here.
FPV is gonna get a whole lotta interesting over there…
Meanwhile in Romania, far right extremists PoS voted against a law to shot down russian drones.
* Summary
* Rogue drones have disrupted European aviation in recent weeks
* Some leaders have attributed them to hybrid war waged by Russia
* Europe struggling over how to deal with the drones
BERLIN, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Germany will grant police the power to shoot down rogue drones like those that have disrupted airports across Europe and that some European leaders have attributed to a hybrid war being waged by Russia.
The new law, agreed by the cabinet on Wednesday and awaiting parliamentary approval, explicitly authorises the police to down drones violating Germany’s airspace, including shooting them down in cases of acute threat or serious harm.
Other techniques available to down drones include using lasers or jamming signals to sever control and navigation links.
“Drone incidents threaten our security,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in a post on social media platform X.
“We will not permit that. We are strengthening the Federal Police’s powers so that drones can be detected and countered more quickly in future.”
The new law comes after dozens of flights were diverted or cancelled last Friday at Munich Airport, Germany’s second largest, leaving more than 10,000 passengers stranded, after [rogue drone](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/munich-runways-closed-again-pilot-blames-drone-sightings-2025-10-03/) sightings.
[Merz](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/germanys-merz-we-assume-russia-is-behind-drone-incursions-2025-10-05/) has said he assumed Russia was behind many of the drones flying over Germany last weekend, but none had been armed and were rather on reconnaissance flights.
EU leaders have come to view Russia as a major threat to their continent’s security following Moscow’s 2022 full-scale invasion of [Ukraine](https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-russia-war/) and their support of Kyiv.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called last month for what she described as a [drone wall](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/eu-leaders-discuss-drone-wall-denmark-days-after-airspace-violations-2025-09-30/) – a network of sensors and weapons to detect, track and neutralise intruding unmanned aircraft – to protect Europe’s eastern flank.
But some say the drones involved in recent incidents could also have been launched from within the EU.
But only if drones are armed and not running away and if it’s not a Thursday and not a day after full moon.