Berlin was shocked when a UAV was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig-Halle airport
Germany will beef up its anti-drone police unit, the government said Monday, days after an explosives-laden unmanned aerial vehicle was flown into a strategically important airport.
Berlin was shocked by the incident last week when the UAV was defused after it was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig-Halle airport, a key military equipment transport hub.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, who labelled the incident a “hybrid attack scenario” potentially involving a “foreign power”, now plans to double personnel in the federal police anti-drone unit to 300.
The number of operational bases for the unit will rise from four to eight, a ministry spokeswoman added at a press conference.
