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.
Exactly how? Track military drones how?
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?
Cripes…
First off, no they’re not. The whole point of a military drone is to have a military asset that’s hard to detect. And advantages in aerodynamics, fuel consumption, noise, and difficulty to track drop exponentially as size increases.
Secondly, you need specialized radar systems present in the area to specifically detect drones and differentiate them from birds, as I’ve already said. When the drones departed - assuming they did, since the Danish government isn’t actually saying what happened with them - they would have left the range of the specialized systems. Denmark doesn’t have drone detection systems covering their whole country.
Third, Finland and Lithuania have also recently had their airspaces invaded by drones. Which appeared to be coming from Russia.
Fourth, Copenhagen is the location for the upcoming EU summit. No EU member would have any reason to test the defenses in Denmark prior to sending their own representatives there. Russia would, if it’s getting more aggressive… Which it is.
The drones were almost certainly Russian. No one else has any reason to send them. Stop carrying water for Vladimir Putin.
The answer to that is no, we’re not currently able to do that. They’re not commercially available drones, and drones are hard to track.