– We're preliminarily dealing with a military drone. It was most likely damaged by explosives. A military expert who will confirm these circumstances goes to the place – the prosecutor Grzegorz Trusiewicz from the territory Prosecutor's Office in Lublin passed to the media on Wednesday.
It was a military drone that fell under the Osinas.
He besides added that now "a civilian option can be initially excluded" and the version that it was a smuggling drone. There's no telling what country he came from. As D.A. Trusiewicz said, possibly the expert's participation in the military will bring this information closer.
According to unofficial information of the Polish Press Agency, which was obtained in sources akin to MON, the object was to be a military drone – but without a warhead, containing only a tiny amount of explosives. Most likely it was a decoy.
Drony-wabiki are unmanned aircraft whose main task is not to destruct targets, but to deceive the opponent. utilized primarily in military activities, they simulate the presence of aircraft, rockets or another drones, emitting radar or heat signals that are designed to deceive air defence systems.
Drony-wabiki let you to detect enemy radar positions, draw its fire, and besides let real combat machines to safely carry out the attack. In conflicts specified as the war in Ukraine, drones of this kind are frequently utilized to break through complex air defence systems.
Let us remind that earlier on Wednesday, the Operations Command of Types of Armed Forces informed: "After preliminary analysis of records of radiolocation systems, no violation of the Polish airspace was recorded from Ukraine or Belarus."
Why was the breach of Polish space not recorded last night?
Why would that happen? As Onet points out, Poland does not presently have a strategy that is able to detect objects entering Polish airspace at tiny heights.
Meanwhile, Shahed drones (it is not excluded that specified a drone has fallen in Poland), is widely utilized by Russia, usually operating at an altitude of 60 to 100 metres, although, as reported by Ukrainian military reports, they sometimes fly even below 50 metres. This is simply a ceiling where our air defence systems have serious limitations and are virtually blind to specified low-flying facilities.
Onet points out that the process of acquiring the short-range defence strategy BARBARA to fill this gap began in 2017. However, it was not until May 2024 that it was decided to acquisition it for $960 million. This strategy is not to be operational until the second half of 2027.
