Catherine Field
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Sep
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That's exactly what the German interior minister was talking about just a couple of hours ago.
The main area that they're going into as a result of this drone which landed at Leipzig airport last week with 800 grams of Semtex explosives attached to it.
What the Germans are saying they're going to have to do now is double the number of anti-drone experts that they have.
So they're going to need some 300 now.
And they're going to upgrade and expand their operational bases.
So there'll be at least eight across the country.
Certainly, the fact that this happened, it was so close to actually being a real catastrophe there, Mike, because it had been many hours before this particular drone laden with explosives had been discovered.
They'd breached airport security for several hours.
And it was the same evening, in fact, that a cargo plane was forced to abort landing at that airport post.
because it almost collided with another unknown object in midair.
So it all has come really at a time when Germany was kind of hoping it would go away, I think is the best way to explain this, Mike.
But also NATO and the EU have been saying quite clearly, listen, we've all got to step up now.
This is happening far too often.
And incidentally, just two days after that near catastrophe in Leipzig, drones were detected over a military installation in Western Germany.
Germany, where US-made Patriot air defence missile systems were being stored.
It's going to be difficult, isn't it, Mike?
Remember we discussed this last week after that incursion.
Yeah, well, as of Saturday, last Saturday, Madrid reimposed border controls on ships and flights coming in from Italy.
It's been a nightmare.
Anyone turning up at an airport or a port from Italy coming into Spain has faced long delays, sweltering heats, of course.
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