The article explains that M. Heinrichmann plans to allow preventive cyberattacks against Russian drone manufacturers.
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This, as noted, is part of the intelligence service reform that he is now helping to organize.
“Simple information gathering will no longer be sufficient in the future. The best drone is the one that never takes off and therefore poses no threat to human lives in Germany.
We definitely have to give our services the opportunity so that they can ideally paralyze and neutralize both the attacking drone itself in Russia and the factory where it is produced before it is directed against a German airport or against people and their health protection in Germany,” said M. Heinrichmann.
According to him, it is necessary to “restructure the special services, ideally to preempt threats.”
The article states that preventive actions require appropriate operational capabilities of the special services.
In an interview with the newspaper “Rheinische Post,” M. Heinrichmann noted that cyberattacks, sabotage, espionage, or illegal drone flights “have now become a reality that we must be better prepared for.”
For this reason, the chairman of the Parliamentary Control Committee believes that the Federal Intelligence Service and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution need “the necessary legal and technical capabilities” to timely identify threats and fully investigate their sources.
This is Germany’s response to recurring drone incidents. It was previously reported that six drones were detected flying over a Bundeswehr base near Mechernich, where maintenance and repair of “Patriot” air defense systems are carried out.
Last week, at Leipzig Airport in Germany, a drone collided with the wing of a Ukrainian cargo plane but did not explode. According to “Die Zeit,” DNA was found on the drone. Moreover, these traces match an older example recorded in 2024 related to the arson of the DHL logistics center in Leipzig. However, according to information received by the publication, there is currently no evidence that these two cases are connected.
