Germany Opens New Drone Research Center

Yesterday the German Aerospace Center opened its Drone Security Technology Center in Saxony-Anhalt, a facility for researching, developing and testing military drones.

• The opening comes just two weeks after an explosives-carrying drone was found at Leipzig-Halle airport, amid fears of Russian hybrid warfare.

Hybrid threats are pushing Germany to rapidly advance its capacity for drone defense, including drone detection, jamming and hijacking.

• The center’s goal is to bring these new capabilities into “application much faster than usual,” according to Olaf Heintze, head of the Security and Defense Program Directorate at the German Aerospace Center.

Big picture: Spiegel reported on Tuesday that there were 116 drone incidents at German airports last year, many of them believed to be linked to Russia. Germany fears Russian drones.

• In March, the government amended air security laws to allow the military to shoot down drones.

Germany doesn’t just fear Russian drone incursions. It fears the possibility of a full-scale war against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

• This week, the Telegraph reported that Russia has built or expanded at least 10 drone border-area military bases “in striking distance of nato.”

Daniel 11:44 prophesies that “tidings out of the east” will scare Germany into striking Russia preemptively. With the opening of this new center, we can see that fear is already pushing Germany into bringing new defense technologies into “application much faster than usual.”

The Bible also warns that before Germany takes military action against Russia, it will take military action against the West.