• plyth@feddit.org
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    Despite the use of jammers, the drones could not be fended off.

    That’s much more worrysome than the drones themselves. Ukraine has functioning jammers but Germany doesn’t?

    The article should answer why they cannot shoot down drones over their bases. There would be no threat for civilians.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    1 hour ago

    The other option is to officially recognize that Germany has been attacked now.

    They are too afraid to say it.

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    7 hours ago

    Change the law, now. Shoot them down, track their operators. Try them as spies and deal with harshly.

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      Apparently the government needs a two-thirds majority to pass this kind of law, which usually means that some part of the opposition needs to vote for a law proposed by the government. The two-thirds majority requirement might be due to WW2, but the real issue is that the then-opposition would literally rather have a foreign country continuously violate our airspace than give one crumb to the other side. I doubt the CDU (then opposition, now government leader) actually had much issue with the content of the law.

      Also, for a long time this kind of thing just wasn’t necessary. I doubt the sowjets were regularly flying military jets into West German airspace.

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      Germany has to draft laws in order to defend its own airspace?

      No.

      They would have to draft laws to defend when there is no attack. Or to defend while not calling the attack an attack.

      “No bullshit” has been a good principle in most of the laws, up until recently…

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    7 hours ago

    Just use trained hawks, comes with built in plausible deniability 😅