There is strong concern in Europe and NATO from the invasions of unmanned aircraft at Copenhagen Airport, Denmark for which Russia was accused. ”

These attacks, which also had an impact on Oslo Airport, highlighted in the most deafening way the “vulnerabilities” on European Air Force security systems and the lack of a single European legislation.

“There are now several examples where, literally from nowhere, a flock of unmanned aircraft appears. In such cases, ”as Konstantinos Diamantakos, Head of the General Aviation and Drones Department of Civil Aviation Authority (APA), points out, ‘Airplane protection can be done either by suspending flights or by redirect“

In practice, the anti-drone systems are graded and distinguished mainly in two categories: the ones that identify and watch the unmanned aircraft and the ones that can obey themthrough the technique of the so -called jamming, which raises national security issues.

Geographical zones are designated around the airports, in which the use of unmanned aircraft is permitted only after approval by the competent authorities.

Today there is no single European legislative framework that obliges each Member State to apply specific anti-Drone measures.

The European Union is limited to providing only guidelines for the presence and operation of these systems at airports.

The absence of the compulsory dimension is due to the fact that issues related to national security remain in the jurisdiction of each state, which will freely decide on the policies it will adopt.

How protected are Greek airports

According to Kathimerini, Greek law provides for existence geographic zones around the airports, where the use of a drone is prohibited and is permitted only after approval by the competent authorities.

The majority of airport political, many of which have military use, such as Chania Airport, has perimeter Systems to detect, identify and detect unmanned aircraft.

In addition, all major airports are equipped with neutralization systems: Once an unknown object is identified in the controlled airspace, the system can gain control by the drone operator and use it.

It remains unclear whether a downfall system has been installed in very small airports, which are usually limited to monitoring. In the possibility of drone detection, the logical reaction is to temporarily suspend their operation until the incident is addressed.

Since this is a particularly sensitive national security issue, access to information about these systems is limited.