Published On 2/11/2025
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The Minister of Defense said Belgian Theo Franken said on Sunday that the police were investigating Reports of seeing a drone over a military air base, in Following other observations of drones at military sites in the country.
Franken stated on the X platform that the government received reports yesterday, Saturday, about… Drones fly over Klein-Brugel Air Base in NE Belgium.
He added that a helicopter and police vehicles pursued the drone, but did not You were able to shoot it down, but a device to jam drones was not able to Her arrest.
“It wasn’t just a flight, it was a clear target,” Franken said Klein Bruegel.”
A spokesman for Franken’s office told Reuters that police were investigating The incident, and government ministers are scheduled to discuss these observations this week.
NATO countries have been on high alert for weeks The past few days after seeing drones and other air incursions, including… This includes airports in Copenhagen, Munich and the Baltic region.
As I entered about 20 Russian drones in Polish airspace last September.
A plan to fortify the border
Investigations are already underway in Belgium into multiple aircraft sightings A march over a military base in the southeast of the country, and another military base in Elsenborn, on the German border, last month.
It is illegal to fly drones over military areas In Belgium.
Last month, the European Commission proposed 4 defense projects European, including an anti-drone system and a plan to fortify the borders East with Russia, as part of a campaign to make the continent ready to defend itself by 2030.
Franken called on the Belgian government to boost spending on defense Anti-drones.