COPENHAGEN: Unidentified drones flew over Danish navy websites, together with its largest base, in a single day following a slew of earlier sightings that Copenhagen has termed a “hybrid assault”, hinting at attainable Russian involvement.
Neighbouring Norway was additionally investigating “attainable sightings of drones” on early Saturday (Sep 27) close to its largest navy base, Orland, the place its F-35 fighter jets are parked.
Copenhagen will host a European Union summit gathering heads of presidency on Wednesday and Thursday.
Denmark has accepted a Swedish offer of Stockholm’s anti-drone technology to make sure the assembly can proceed with out disruption.
In Denmark, drones have been confirmed at “a number of navy websites”, a navy spokesman informed AFP on Saturday, refusing to supply different particulars.
Danish police mentioned “one to 2 drones” have been noticed on Friday round 8.15pm close to and over the Karup navy base, the nation’s largest base, which homes all the armed forces’ helicopters, airspace surveillance, flight college and help features.
Karup can be house to elements of the defence command.
Police spokesman Simon Skelkjaer mentioned he couldn’t touch upon the place the drones got here from, including: “We did not take them down”.
Police have been cooperating with the navy of their investigation, he mentioned.
The Karup base shares its runways with the Midtjylland civilian airport, which was briefly closed, although no flights have been affected as none have been scheduled at that hour, Skelkjaer mentioned.
In Norway, the navy was collaborating with the police to find out if it was certainly drones that have been noticed.
“The sightings are most likely drones, however the investigation will discover out what it was. As of now, we’re dealing with it as a drone sighting,” a spokesman for Norway’s joint headquarters, Brynjar Stordal, informed AFP.
“Not less than two drones” flew in a restricted space close to the bottom “for round an hour” earlier than they disappeared, he mentioned.
“They weren’t engaged by us.”
Mysterious drone observations throughout Denmark and Norway since Monday have prompted the closure of several airports.
They adopted drone incursions in Polish and Romanian territory and the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets, which raised tensions in mild of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
