Germany is doubling its federal police anti-drone unit after an explosive-laden drone breached Leipzig/Halle Airport, a major NATO logistics hub, as US intelligence reportedly links the suspected sabotage operation to Russia. The expansion follows last week’s discovery of a drone carrying explosives and a detonator inside a restricted area of Leipzig/Halle Airport, close to Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft. AdvertisementDobrindt has described the incident as a professional “hybrid attack scenario” potentially involving a foreign power and warned that an explosives-equipped drone on airport grounds represented a new level of threat. Dobrindt warned over the weekend that Germany is already the target of such operations on a daily basis. AdvertisementAirport workers discovered the drone in a restricted cargo area close to the southern runway.