Denmark shuts multiple airports, more unidentified drones spotted

[4ndrewl]

I wouldn't rule out a mass panic-type event. A similar event which closed London's Gatwick airport (one of Europe's busiest) garnered no evidence and no serious lines of enquiry.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-...

See also the recent closure of Heathrow Terminal 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5ypl5grg24t

[vintermann]

These drones have lights on at night. That doesn't sound too much like Russians to me. But maybe that's just what the Russians want me to think...

At least one of the videos published recently was likely of a school plane from Copenhagen Airtaxi, according to a Norwegian drone trade magazine: https://www.dronemag.no/dansk-droneobservasjon-kan-ha-vaert-...

[demarq]

Yup and impossible to verify, you can wake up and claim drones were sighted and that’s that.

[Tankenstein]

There's footage of this incident, footage of monday's Copenhagen incident, and there were arrests in Oslo on monday for another incident over Oslo.

[matusp]

It is IMO only a matter of time before there is a significant deadly aviation incident involving a drone. The aviation industry is not built around the idea of anybody having this sort of ability.

[euroderf]

Denmark is talking about blocking the Baltic to commercial ship traffic that does not have Western insurance. (Read: Russian ghost fleet.) The Law of the Sea permits this when there is a clear environmental threat. (Oil spillages etc.)

In parallel, some (Russian-controlled?) ships have been refusing Danish pilots for navigating the straits.

So... maybe Vlad is playing Goodfellas. Like many other dirtbags.

[clan]

Drones spotted at 4 additional smaller airports in Denmark during the night.

Still with lights on however.

Link to Danish story:

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/overblik-droner-over-flere...

[wartywhoa23]

People are the new oil, and its technological process dictates that there are valves to control its flows dynamically.

[instantnews]

Airport group are suffering a huge financial loss just with these tiny remotecontrolaircrafts. The government should restrict any commoners to own any of these 'military-grade' aircraft.

[TheChaplain]

I believe this will call for much stricter drone laws, possibly having tracking and stronger license requirements.

[BostonFern]

Officials have made announcements that tie the alleged drone sightings to “capable” (e.g., foreign state) actors. How would stricter laws address that?

It’s also already illegal to fly drones above airports.

[elric]

So are these Russian drones? Or perhaps protests against their pushing of Chat Control?

[Ekaros]

Could also be USA preparing for invasion of Greenland. You never known with terrorist nations...

[hallh]

So far, the police have only confirmed that they are non-commercial drones. The Ministry of Defence is hosting a press conference about it shortly.

[trhway]

Summit in Shanghai there Xi gave ok to probe and harass NATO, immediately 20 intelligence drones 100+ miles deep into Poland, 3 fighter jets 10 minutes into Estonia airspace. (Those actions already triggered kneejerk in NATO to give first priority to beefing up NATO countries' air defenses instead of supplying air-defense systems to Ukraine).

Add to that cyberattack on the airports 3 days ago and now massive drones in European airports (when Russia has been for several months having its own airports periodically shut down by Ukranian drones and thus clearly understood such an action and how it can be used in a hybrid war and also how it can hint at capability to perform a "Pautina"(SpiderWeb) style operation against Europe) - what are the chances for the drones to not be Russian. And not forgetting cyberattack on the airports 3 days ago.