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I don't understand why they don't shot down them
I do not understand why they do not follow them, see where they land and then arrest the pilot.
Drone pilots can be hundreds of miles away. Probably inside Russia
Yes so follow the drone and see where it goes using a helicopter or plane.
They detect they drone. They track the drone. They refuse to shoot it down out of fear for debris. But why not track it and see where it lands?
Because it takes time to get a vehicle in the air to go after them, time in which the drones might be gone and all you have to go by is their last heading when they could've changed direction, split up, and traveled a hundred kilometers in different directions before heading for where they actually came from. All while you can't follow them into somebody else's air space because drones are too small to be picked up on standard radar but a helicopter or plane certainly aren't, which means that it could look like you're invading their air space. This also means that the drones could potentially have traveled through multiple countries undetected before arriving at their destination, so you can't even assume that they came from those countries even if you do manage to track them to their air space.
"I can confirm that we had an incident around 8:15 pm (1815 GMT Friday) that lasted for some hours. One to two drones were observed outside and over the airbase," duty officer Simon Skelsjaer told AFP, referring to the Karup military base.
First, it's probably almost impossible to "track" it they way you described. Drones fly faster than helicopters and even if not, drones don't just sit and wait to be intercepted. By the time helicopters or jets would be scrambled, the drone would be long gone.
Second, I'm fairly certain that it's not necessary to track them visually by following them. They're already being tracked by radars and scanners.
Third, why? So you track the drone all the way to Russian borders, you cannot enter Russia or you will violate their airspace and risk getting shot down and escalating further. So now that you know where it came from, what's next?
Because that would be evil, somehow. Instead let's wildly speculate and go with whatever seems likely in the fog of war and misinformation.
Drone debris is no joke. Most likely they don't destroy them to avoid damage to their infrastructure.
They are not like seagulls or other birds. These fly very high very fast and are difficult to hit
Ladder truck and a shotgun ought to do it. Defense contract please!
Drones neither fly high nor fast, at least in airplane terms.
Before you launch an airplane though, they are gone. You can't have planes in the air at all times defending a whole country from drones
You don’t need planes in the air 24/7, you need good radar and radio detection equipment.
Regardless, my point is drones are neither high flying nor fast. They’re often able to be caught by helicopters, which also are not high flying or fast. Very high and very fast, simultaneously, is SR-71 levels of performance.
They are indeed hard to hit given their size.
I imagine the commentator thinking one can shoot them down with a riffle or something similar. The point is, that you can't just launch a plane to go after drones. Especially in a country like Denmark that only has a few military bases and even fewer that have planes that can shoot.
Sure, drones are not as fast as planes, but they are way faster than seagulls
Denmark is densely populated. Most rounds fired at a drone won't hit, and will come down somewhere. Rounds designed to explode in the air occasionally don't.