Drone attacks leave Denmark exposed

The Western Denmark did not cause any damage or damage on the night of a drone incidents at the airports and military bases in Jutland – and still revealed the country’s defense vulnerable to the attack.

There is a sense of shame in which the critical infrastructure, which is the founding member of the alliance of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) alliance in the Hybrid war era, in the war age, has become very vulnerable.

Aalborg and Billund airports had to close, while DRONS were detected in ESBJERG, SonDerborg and Skrydstrup. Aalborg also serves as a military base and hosts some of the Air Force’s F-35 and F-16 fighter planes. Drones also seen On the Jutland Dragoon Regiment in Holstebro.

Since then, there have been reports of the police around the oil and gas platforms in the North Sea of ​​Denmark and who are investigating drone activities near the central port of Korsor.

Now the question of the country’s army will be answered.

None of the drones were shot – defense chiefs decided that they were safer, but this is not a long -term solution.

Denmark, of course not alone.

Norway, Estonia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania have been subjected to hybrid war in recent weeks. They’re all on NATO’s eastern wing.

Estonia and Poland called NATO 4 this month. Russian fighter planes entered Estonia airport for 12 minutesAnd about 20 Russian aircraft violated the Poland airspace and was shot.

He accused a “professional actor” for the Danish drone attacks, but he said there was no evidence of the participation of the Russians.

Article 4 brings together a defense alliance for a member’s “regional integrity, political independence or security” when “threatened”.

The Danish government evaluates whether it can do the same right now.

This is a serious moment for Denmark and the best rice – the government, defense and police – quickly called for a press conference that Lund Poulsen said that it looks “systematic” because of the number of targeted places.

“This is what I’m going to define as a hybrid attack, dedi he said, without attributing the crime because he has no concrete evidence.

Russia was not excluded – Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen Something explained after the drone disruption against Copenhagen on Monday night.

Moscow condemned any participation “strictly” and condemned the Embassy in Copenhagen as “gradual provocation”.

However, Frederik said, undoubtedly, about the risk and only last week Russia “will be a threat to Europe and Denmark in the coming years,” he said.

No one has been damaged yet, because first of all, the drones were left to fly their routes.

Defense chief Michael Hyldgaard simply said: “When you hit something in the air, something goes down again.”

When was an example of this? The roof of a house Wyryki was destroyed in Eastern PolandIt was reported by a missile fired by a NATO jet.

The police in Jutland said they would try to reduce the drones if they could be safely, and the Ordu said that he was ready to do so on military facilities, depending on the “special threat assessment and the possible consequences of removing the publication.”

But it hasn’t happened until now.

Kjeld Jensen of the Drone Center of South Danish University embarrasses that Denmark’s security vulnerabilities have been left naked – but believes that the police and the army are moving properly.

“I don’t hit the drones on an urban area or airport,” he says, “there would be other fuel or batteries that create fire, and this is a risk that you need to take into account.”

“You need to decide if it’s more dangerous than letting him fly around,” Peter Viggo Jakobsen of the Royal Danish Defense College says. “But this is not a sustainable situation and we need to find ideas.”

Denmark’s cautious approach has been distinctly different from Poland since Russia’s drone attacks on September 10th.

This week, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski warned Moscow at the UN: “If another missile or aircraft passes our region intentionally or without permission, it will be shot and the debris falls into the NATO region, do not come to complain here. You are warned.”

The lack of Denmark and most of its neighbors is the tools they need to download the drones.

The government recently announced its plans to “an integrated layer air defense” as well as investment in long -range sensitive weapons to hit the enemy territory.

However, this is very little useful for Denmark’s defenses.

“It is much easier to build a drone that can fly, to prevent them from flying,” Jensen from Southern Danish University said.

On Friday, Denmark will join several NATO allies and Ukraine to discuss the idea of ​​establishing a “drone wall” proposed by the European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen to protect the EU’s eastern borders.

The drones they will discuss are more likely to focus on armed weapons reaching the Poland airspace rather than unarmed drones with bright lights in Denmark.

The aim is to create an early detection system, but if the drones detected on Jutland are launched locally, they may not help Denmark overnight.

If Russia is behind the latest drone disruption despite its denial, this operation seems to be a success according to hybrid war standards.

The airports were briefly closed, Denmark’s military areas were made to look vulnerable, and senior ministers had to hold a hurry press conference to eliminate public concerns.

However, Danes gave a new call to wake up. The police raised crisis levels and the Minister of Defense was faced with a new reality from the country.