[aDyslecticCrow]

Same reason they infiltrate airspace duringtraining, fly drones over airports, run submarines through ports.

Testing limits and tolerance, threatening what they could do in a real attack. Creating econocic pain in retaliation for support with a strong alibi to blame.

Boarding and detaining is a new escalation. How many cables cut before we consider military reaction? 3? 10? all of them?

[dundarious]

Is there a real drone issue at all? https://www.dronewatch.eu/61-european-drone-sightings-analys...

[hexbin010]

Various parts of Europe keep announcing extraordinarily expensive new drone defense systems, so you'd hope so (or that the announcements are a bluff)

[iambateman]

There is a real drone issue, yes.