POLITICO
HERSTAL, Belgium — One of Europe’s biggest air defense companies is warning that its top secret factories are being overflown by increasing numbers of drones, and it wants clear rules on how to jam or bring them down.
“We are seeing more drones than what was the case a few months ago,” said Alain Quevrin, country director for Thales Belgium. He highlighted sightings over the company’s Évegnée Fort site in the eastern Liège region, the only Belgian facility where it is licensed to assemble and store explosives for its 70 mm rockets.
His comments come amid mounting reports of unmanned aerial vehicles, including in Poland, Romania, Germany, Norway and Denmark in the past month. Some, like the war drones overflying Poland and Romania, were Russian, while the origin of others has been harder to determine.
