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New drone overflights alarm authorities
Status: 13.12.2024 13:42 hrs
Since the end of November, suspicious drone flights have apparently been detected over industrial plants and the US base in Ramstein. The authorities are investigating, but are largely powerless so far
By Manuel Bewarder, NDR/WDR, and Florian Flade, WDR
The drones first appeared in northern Germany in August. Over the ChemCoast Park Brunsbüttel industrial park, for example, they flew over a shut-down nuclear power plant, an LNG terminal, locks and the Kiel Canal. The aircraft were fast, sometimes flying at more than 100 kilometers per hour. They were obviously not the usual aircraft used by amateur pilots. Rather, according to security experts, they were military drones, including fixed-wing aircraft with fixed wings, which are well suited to faster speeds and larger areas.
Since the end of November, according to research by WDR and NDR, there have once again been unusual drone sightings, this time over petrochemical plants in southern Germany and over the Ramstein military airfield in Rhineland-Palatinate, the headquarters of the US Air Force in Europe.
Drones have reportedly been spotted several times over the BASF site in Ludwigshafen in recent weeks. As in Brunsbüttel in the summer, the overflights also take place in the dark, according to the research. The drones are also said to be significantly larger than standard commercial aircraft flown by hobby pilots, which are otherwise repeatedly observed. The company did not respond to an inquiry at short notice.
The Rhineland-Palatinate State Office of Criminal Investigation reportedly set up a special organizational unit (BAO) last week to investigate the background to the drone overflights. However, as in northern Germany, the authorities have not yet succeeded in determining who is flying these suspicious drones and where they are being launched from.
(In German)