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Germany plans nine-city counter-drone units and a law letting power and water companies actively fend off drones, five weeks after the Leipzig bomb.
Germany formally blames Russia for the August 4 explosive drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport and will close the Russian consulate in Bonn on September 18.
A third drone and 50 grams of suspected hexogen turned up beside Leipzig/Halle Airport. Investigators say the plot was far larger than the public knew.
US intelligence ties the explosive drone found beside a Ukrainian An-124 at Leipzig to Russia's GRU, as more drones and explosives turn up nearby.
Germany opened the DLR Drone Security Technology Center at Cochstedt airport two weeks after an explosives-laden drone struck a Ukrainian An-124 at Leipzig.
Camera footage shows the Leipzig drone flew straight into the wing of a Ukrainian An-124, and the bus driver never kicked it out of the air. DroneXL corrects Sunday's report as DNA on the drone matches the 2024 DHL parcel attack and a record in Lithuania, and an American EchoShield radar goes up at the airport.
Correction: Camera footage shows the Leipzig drone struck the wing of a parked Antonov An-124 and fell to the ground without detonating. The bus driver found it and pinned it under his foot. He never kicked it out of the air, contrary to the lawmaker account this article reported.
Investigators confirm Semtex and PETN in the Leipzig drone bomb, which slipped past airport defenses and sat unseen beside a Ukrainian An-124 for four hours.
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