Belgium opens probe into Brussels Airport drone sighting
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Belgium's Liege airport has temporarily halted flights for the second time in a week due to a drone sighting, the country’s air traffic control service has said. The disruption comes three just days after drone sightings in the capital Brussels and in ...
Belgium will work to improve surveillance of its airspace following repeated sightings of drones over its airports and military bases, Defence Minister Theo Francken said on Thursday. Belgium's Brussels and Liege airports were closed for hours on Tuesday evening after drone sightings,
Germany will support Belgium with counter-drone defense systems in response to increasing sightings of unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near Belgian military facilities, the German Defense Ministry announced Thursday.
Belgium's defense minister confirmed that drones had flown into the area near the Kleine Brogel air base in northeast Belgium in two phases.
Belgian intelligence services believe Russia is behind a series of drone flights detected in recent weeks over military bases and airports.
Belgium's defense minister said that more counter-uncrewed aerial systems "are urgently needed" after three drones spied on the Kleine-Brogel base.
The Kleine-Brogel Air Base, located in the city of Peer, stores U.S. nuclear weapons and will become the home base for new F-35 fighter jets starting in 2027. As Ukrinform reported earlier, unidentified drones had previously been spotted twice over the military base in Marche-en-Famenne in southern Belgium.