COPENHAGEN: Unidentified drones flew over Danish army websites, together with its greatest 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 greatest army 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 had been confirmed at “a number of army websites”, a army spokesman advised AFP on Saturday, refusing to supply different particulars.
Danish police stated “one to 2 drones” had been noticed on Friday round 8.15pm close to and over the Karup army base, the nation’s greatest base, which homes the entire armed forces’ helicopters, airspace surveillance, flight college and assist capabilities.
Karup can also be dwelling to components of the defence command.
Police spokesman Simon Skelkjaer stated he couldn’t touch upon the place the drones got here from, including: “We did not take them down”.
Police had been cooperating with the army of their investigation, he stated.
The Karup base shares its runways with the Midtjylland civilian airport, which was briefly closed, although no flights had been affected as none had been scheduled at that hour, Skelkjaer stated.
In Norway, the army was collaborating with the police to find out if it was certainly drones that had been noticed.
“The sightings are in all probability 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, advised AFP.
“A minimum of two drones” flew in a restricted space close to the bottom “for round an hour” earlier than they disappeared, he stated.
“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 gentle of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
