Three Mystery Drones Flew Over Germany's $3.5B Arrow 3 System — Troops Couldn't Shoot Them Down | Defense Express
16h 29m ago by lemmy.zip/u/schizoidman in europe@feddit.org from en.defence-ua.com
cross-posted from : https://sh.itjust.works/post/53141995
Germany back in 2023 signed a contract with Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for supplying Arrow 3 missile defense systems worth $3.5 billion. Already on December 1, 2026, at an airbase near Annaburg city in Saxony-Anhalt, the system was deployed and reached initial combat readiness.
However, it turned out that two days before official deployment, three unknown drones flew over this system. Moreover, Defense Romania noted that they flew at approximately 100 meters altitude directly over the radar station from Arrow 3 composition.
G27P assault rifles were used for this, equipped with Israeli Smash X4 smart sights, which have recently been actively promoted as a anti-drone solution. However, they failed to shoot down the unmanned aircraft, which then disappeared from the scene.
Later, German counterintelligence and military police classified this incident as an act of deliberate espionage. Defense Express adds that despite all importance of this system which, besides costing over $3.5 billion, is nearly Europe's only defense against russian Oreshnik and intercontinental ballistic missiles Germany couldn't protect it from three drones flying directly over it.
Although multi-layered air defense is always built around such objects. But now allowance can be made that this system was just put into operation, and such defense simply wasn't built yet.
wut.
This, er, attempt at journalism doesn't list an author, and the writing sure sounds like AI garbage that was trained on elementary school essays.
December 1, 2026
December 1, 2026?
Part of the defense is time travel. They may have gotten confused about some of the details though.
in Europe we really need to stop being so soft. Shoot the damn things down and imprison the people who used them. No hasitation.
They tried shooting them down.
They did fire at them
Read the article...
What makes you think europe governments are being soft? Fly a drone with the palestian flag in any european city and let's see how soft they are about it.
There are two outcomes out of this: Big chances are that nobody cares. There are a lot of people flying drones in cities, even if they shouldn't. If you're unlucky, the police will catch you and you're in trouble, but that really has nothing to do with palestine, but rather the fact that flying drones in cities is illegal in nearly every european country for good reasons.
I'd ask my money back
Arrow 3 is an exo-atmospheric anti-ballistic missile system:
it's not exactly useful in an anti-drone role, unless those drones happen to be coming in from space.
I see,thanks for the info,I'm totally uninformed about weaponry
I wonder if there is a single country in Europe ready to receive the amount of Shahed drones Ukraine receives almost daily. All those systems vs oreshnik aren't worth shit if you can't down 300 drones that come with one oreshnik too.
I wonder if there is a single country in Europe ready to receive the amount of Shahed drones Ukraine receives almost daily.
Yes, all of them in fact. It's called deterrence.
Nobody is building systems to constanty destroy hundreds of drones each day. Just like no one (but a few very persistent morons) builds walls to keep attackers away. The actual protection is the consequences for the attacker. Guess what Ukraine would pick between ten thousands of anti-air systems (the amount you would need to protect an actual country, not just some points of strategic interest) and EU-/NATO-membership.
Ok, so what consequences could Europe do? Cause USA signals that they won't take part.
France will send nukes as a warning
Ukraine wasn’t ready to do that in 2022 either.
The UFO people are probally excited about this.