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along_the_road ( along_the_road@beehaw.org )  to World News · 2 months ago

German airport worker KICKED ‘military-grade bomb carried by Russian drone to blow up jet loaded with ammo for Ukraine’

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German airport worker KICKED ‘military-grade bomb carried by Russian drone to blow up jet loaded with ammo for Ukraine’

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along_the_road ( along_the_road@beehaw.org )  to World News · 2 months ago
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  • poVoq ( poVoq@slrpnk.net ) 
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    https://www.reuters.com/world/germanys-security-council-discusses-drone-incident-air-cargo-hub-2026-08-07/

    Proper source instead of a shitty tabloid.

    • along_the_road ( along_the_road@beehaw.org ) OP
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      The drone has been proven to be Russian which that news article omits

  • t3rmit3 ( t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
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    Major international incident/ escalation/ act of war prevented by a bus driver kicking a drone.

    • Otter ( otter@lemmy.ca ) 
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      This feels like a time-traveller changing history scenario. I wonder what the original intent was

      BERLIN, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A bus driver knocked an explosive-laden drone out of the air, potentially preventing an ‌attack this week at a German airport that serves as a major NATO and cargo logistics hub, a senior lawmaker said on Friday.

      The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig/Halle airport late on Tuesday, then kicked out at it ​in what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act.

      The drone, which prosecutors said was equipped ​with professional explosives and a detonator, then crashed nearby, Seif, from the governing conservative CDU ⁠party, told journalists.

      • ikidd ( ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        I’m surprised the operator didn’t detonate it to get rid of the evidence after they failed.

  • zilouge ( zilouge@feddit.nu ) 
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    Give him a medal, a heros parade and a wheelbarrow for his balls.

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    We don’t read The Sun in this household.

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