Ahead of a UN Security Council meeting Monday to discuss the recent violation of Estonia's airspace by three Russian fighter jets, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland would shoot down aircraft that clearly violate its airspace

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[–] [S] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Always good to keep the skies neat and tidy, I say.

Somebody must clean the air and shoot down all that " strange flying debris " over European airspace, that is clearly NOT Ruzzian. /s

edit. neat & tidy

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    Damn, seems like there is a Russian bot trying to divert the Russian attack on NATO countries to something about Epstein.

    Good thing they failed. Just like how Russia will fail to capture the old USSR territories. I'm hoping they will lose even more territories in the end.

    Time for Russia to fracture and the current government to take their own medicine and disappear.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    I do not say this to criticize these plans, but: I wonder how many drone hobbyists are about to get their shit wrecked. I know civilian and military drones are vastly different, but from a military perspective I guess how spooked would you be/be willing to be before just shooting it down if it looks funny and shouldn’t be there?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This seems like a nuts perspective to me. If a another country was sometimes flying drones through my countries I would not be worried about some hobbyist drones.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I literally prefaced it with saying that I wasn’t criticizing the plan. I just know there are stupid people in the world with money, and they tend to have drones. If idly wondering about something is new to anyone then I apologize for the culture shock.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    Check the specs of Shahed drones ( 3.5 m or 11 ft). They don't look civilian at all.

    Also it's not only about drones but about boats, submarines and MIG jets.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Were there some boat and submarine incursions into Polish airspace I missed?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That’s what I’m saying, even though civilian drones don’t look like military drones, would you trust an enemy force to not utilize civilian drones in some way? At which point it becomes how do you tell them apart when a civilian flies a drone somewhere unexpected, and how much do you care about false positives.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    If there is any doubt, shoot first then find out who gets mad. I would hazard a guess that a. Drone enthusiasts are smart enough to fly their drones away from the border, and b. Shooting and then paying to replace a drone would be a cheap expenditure for national security.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That's fair though the drones they're primarily concerned about look more like small planes rather than recreational drones. I'm assuming if any Poles have drones to fly, they're likely well off enough to head a bit west to avoid them being shot down. And with modern nav/attack chains I'm pretty confident they'll discern between the two.

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