Drones observed over one of Denmark's largest military installations

Published connected 27/09/2025 - 12:06 GMT+2 •Updated 15:55

The Danish defence ministry said that “drones person been observed astatine respective of Danish defence facilities” overnight into Saturday.

The renewed drone sightings travel aft location were respective drone sightings successful nan Nordic state earlier this week, pinch immoderate of them temporarily shutting down Danish airports.

The Danish defence ministry said successful a connection that drone activity was noticed astatine Skrydstrup Air Base, successful confederate Denmark, and nan Jutland Dragoon Regiment base.

Local media outlets reported that 1 aliases much drones were besides seen adjacent aliases supra nan subject Karup Air Base, which is nan country’s biggest subject base.

The Defence ministry refused to corroborate nan sighting astatine Karup and said later that “for reasons of operational information and nan ongoing investigation, nan Defence Command Denmark does not wish to elaborate further connected drone sightings.”

Danish nationalist broadcaster, DR, reported that successful Karup, location were drones successful nan aerial some wrong and extracurricular nan obstruction of nan aerial guidelines astatine astir 8 p.m. section time, quoting Simon Skelkjær, nan work head astatine nan Central and West Jutland Police.

DR says nan airspace was closed to civilian aerial postulation for a play of clip pursuing nan incident, adding that did not person overmuch applicable value arsenic location is presently nary civilian aviation successful Karup.

The drones observed flying supra Copenhagen airdrome connected Monday grounded flights successful nan Danish superior for hours, according to authorities, who slammed nan incident arsenic “hybrid attacks”.

Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard said connected Thursday that nan extremity of nan flyovers is to sow fearfulness and division. He added that Copenhagen will activity further ways to neutralise drones, including proposing authorities to let infrastructure owners affected by nan incursions to sprout them down.

In neighbouring Germany, respective drones were reported successful nan early hours of Saturday successful nan bluish German authorities of Schleswig-Holstein, which borders Denmark.

“State constabulary are presently importantly stepping up their drone defence measures, besides successful coordination pinch different bluish German states,” said Sabine Sütterlin-Waack, nan state's interior minister.

The repeated unexplained drone activity, including complete 5 Danish airports earlier this week, including nan largest and busiest, Copenhagen Airport, has raised concerns astir information successful bluish Europe amid suspected increasing Russian aggression.

For nan upcoming European Union acme adjacent week, nan Danish defence ministry confirmed connected X that nan country's authorities had accepted an connection from Sweden to “lend Denmark a subject anti-drone capability,” without giving further details.