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Marc Henrichmann, chairman of the Bundestag Parliamentary Control Committee from the Christian Democratic Union, intends to grant German security services the authority to conduct preventive cyberattacks against Russian drone manufacturers.
According to a report by Die Welt, the proposed powers for the Federal Intelligence Service and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution are part of an intelligence reform that the German government is set to discuss on August 12.
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Henrichmann stated that security agencies require updated legal and technical tools to identify threats originating from Russia in a timely manner.
"Simply gathering information will no longer be sufficient in the future. The best drone is the one that never takes off and, therefore, does not endanger human lives in Germany," the politician said.
He emphasized the need to restructure the intelligence services to allow proactive measures before an attack occurs.
"We must indeed give our services the ability so that, ideally, they can paralyze and disable an attacking drone in Russia or the factory where it is produced before it is directed against a German airport or against the safety of people's lives and health in Germany," Henrichmann added.
The discussions take place during an ongoing investigation into a security incident at Leipzig Airport, where a drone carrying explosives and a detonator reached a location near a Ukrainian aircraft unnoticed.
According to German investigators, the drone flew toward the wing of the Ukrainian aircraft but failed to explode, bouncing off the wing and falling to the ground.
American intelligence has linked the Leipzig incident to Russia, while the Russian Embassy in Berlin described the event as a fabricated provocation.
On August 4, 2026, an FPV drone carrying a Semtex explosive charge slammed into the wing of a Ukrainian Antonov An-124 cargo aircraft at Leipzig Airport, but failed to detonate.
The drone struck a critical area near the wing's fuel tanks, bounced off the aircraft, and fell to the ground, where it remained unnoticed for four hours before a tour bus driver spotted it and notified security.
US authorities later linked the attempted strike to Russian intelligence, prompting Germany's National Security Council to convene as investigators determined the incident was an intentional attack rather than a warning.
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