New drone sightings were reported over Denmark’s largest military base overnight, Danish security authorities said on Saturday.
Broadcaster DR cited the armed forces as saying unidentified drones were seen near military installations.
New drone sightings were reported over Denmark’s largest military base overnight, Danish security authorities said on Saturday.
Broadcaster DR cited the armed forces as saying unidentified drones were seen near military installations.
Where did it say military drones?
Also radar of course.
They were detected specifically over military installations. You don’t think a group of hobbyist drone pilots got together and randomly decided, “Hey, let’s fly a bunch of drones over Denmark’s sensitive military infrastructure simultaneously, for reasons,” do you?
As for radar, drones are small enough to avoid detection by regular radar systems. They’re hard to track. That’s why they get used in military operations. To detect drones, you need C-UAS radar systems, which are typically installed at military locations - I believe that’s how these drones were detected - but once the drones were out of range, tracing them would be extremely difficult.
So why did the military base not track the drones? Radar systems these days brag about being able to track birds.
Allegedly this was a big drone.
These. Plural. Multiple drones. Multiple military sites. Simultaneously. And it’s funny you mention birds… Without C-UAS systems, radar has difficulty differentiating birds and drones.
So it should be very easy to track one of them.
Military drones are a lot bigger than birds.
Russia has advanced drones that can’t be detected now, I guess?