We @fpri.bsky.social just finished a large study on drone incursions in the US. Most are accidents. Yet, proliferation of UAS has created an exploitable environment for malign actors seeking to conduct close target reconnaissance, or potentially even kinetic attacks against critical infrastructure.

The US is hamstrung in its response b/c of competing authorities, the potential danger to civilians, and even Article IV constitutional protections (jamming a drone is considered an illegal wiretapping in certain instances). I imagine EU has similar issues; www.fpri.org/article/2025...

I'll just add that airport sightings are often fraught, with mixed reporting. The US has a single database. Don't know about the EU. But "large drones" need not be anything outside of the personal hobby class. Good example is what happened in both Germany and in the UK at Lakenheath.

Here is a similar instance in Germany, where drones overflew Rheimettal and Ramstein: www.france24.com/en/europe/20...