Denmark reported fresh drone sightings above defense sites Friday and Saturday, after a week of chaos in the skies that temporarily shut down major airports.

The Danish defense ministry confirmed drone activity was detected at Skrydstrup Air Base and the Jutland Dragoon Regiment, but would not confirm local media reports of sightings above the country’s biggest military base near Karup, the Associated Press reported.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said earlier this week that Europe was engaged in a “hybrid war” after a wave of drone activity plagued the country’s airspace, with authorities blaming an unnamed “professional actor”.

Danish officials have accepted an offer from Sweden to “lend Denmark a military anti-drone capability” ahead of an EU leaders’ meeting in Copenhagen next week, the defense ministry confirmed on X Friday evening.

German media reported drone sightings in Schleswig-Holstein, near the Danish border, Friday night, in what authorities suspected to be espionage.

The legislative move comes amid a flurry of drone intrusions across Denmark and northern Germany that have intensified concerns over security and espionage. In Denmark, multiple airports and military installations have reported drone sightings in recent days. Copenhagen’s main airport was shut for several hours earlier this week after large drones were observed hovering in restricted airspace.

Dobrindt’s proposal has two pillars. First, the minister said he would establish a national drone defense center to pool resources from the federal police, state police, the federal criminal office and the German armed forces, or Bundeswehr. 

The center would bundle budgets, foster research projects and coordinate new technologies for interception — from jamming and takeover systems to “drone-on-drone” countermeasures.

Second, the government will amend Germany’s Aviation Security Act, which dates back to 2005. The new legislation would explicitly permit the Bundeswehr to step in under the framework of military assistance to civilian authorities when police capacity is insufficient.

“That naturally also includes the option of shooting down drones,” Dobrindt stressed.

Germany’s current framework only allows limited police use of signal disruption or net systems, leaving gaps against larger or militarized drones. Expanding military powers in domestic airspace, however, raises legal questions. 

Under Germany’s constitution, the Bundeswehr is barred from routine domestic security tasks, with deployments on home soil permitted only in narrowly defined cases of disaster relief when civil authorities formally request support.

Despite that, the amendments are due to be presented to parliament this autumn, Dobrindt said.