Ulrike Franke

Talk about low-tech!
Article on French military pigeons.

“Fuck, am Ende hab ich recht!” 🙈

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

Doesn’t sound ideal.

"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says.

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„Wir sollen an Flughäfen ein mulmiges Gefühl bekommen“ Die renommierte deutsche Expertin für Sicherheitspolitik, Ulrike Franke, erklärt, warum ein „Drohnenwall“ so nicht machbar ist und was Russland mit Drohnenüberflügen bezwecken könnte.

Me again.

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Different case.

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

"Given the current security posture of the platform and the hosted 3rd party applications the likelihood of an adversary gaining persistent undetectable access to the platform requires the system be treated as very high risk."

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

Doesn’t sound ideal.

"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says.

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Ja, fair point, das weiss ich aktuell nicht, wie gut das in der Praxis tatsächlich funktioniert.

I don’t get these people. They go through the trouble of looking me up, searching my contact details, writing me an email… only to tell me things I have repeated over and over for the last days.

(In this case, this 👇stat. Which of course he got wrong, but anyway)

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Flughafen Frankfurt: Hobbydrohnenpilot droht Geldstrafe im fünfstelligen Bereich Am Freitagmorgen um 6.00 Uhr wollte er seine neue Drohne testen – ausgerechnet am Frankfurter Flughafen. Jetzt hat die Polizei die Identität des 41-Jährigen ermittelt. Für den Mann wird es wohl teuer.

Well, they got one guy. Hobbyist drone pilot tried to fly his drone Friday morning at 6am near Frankfurt airport.

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“These sites have highest level of anti-aircraft protection.” - would be nice if true.

“ Poland had no great difficulty in downing Russian drones” - of course they did, they used inappropriate systems and downed 3 out of 19.

“the West has the tech for that”
- we should and could but mostly don’t

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That’s incorrect.

“Ordinary jamming etc counter measures ineffective. Russia has nothing this elusive.” - The problem isn’t that these were super sophisticated drones, it’s that there were barely any countermeasures in place!

ZIB 2 vom 03.10.2025 Cupal (ORF): "Hamas will alle Geiseln freilassen" | Politikwissenschaftler Anton Pelinka gestorben | Drohnenalarm in Europa löst Besorgnis aus | Sicherheitsexpertin Franke: "Drohnensichtungen der geop...

Long interview in last night’s ORF Zeit im Bild with yours truly ( in German)

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Politkteil : "Wir werden regelmäßig angegriffen" Der Kreml provoziert den Westen immer wieder mit Drohnen und Kampfjets. Wie gefährlich ist das? Und wie gut sind Nato und EU für eine Gegenwehr gerüstet?

Zum Thema „Drohnen“ gibts einen sehr informativen Podcast.
Bin schlauer raus als rein.
Mit @rikefranke.bsky.social zu Gast bei Tina Hildebrandt und @heinrichwefing.bsky.social .

Munich airport operations again hindered by drone sightings. Doesn’t seem to stop.

Den Zauberberg lesen? DEN ZAUBERBERG LESEN?! Das ist das einzige Buch von dem ich ernsthaft überzeugt bin, dass es beim Lesen krank MACHT!

Schattenflotte: Von Frankreich festgesetzter russischer Öltanker setzt Fahrt fort Französische Soldaten hatten den Öltanker »Boracay« gestoppt. Der Verdacht: Das Schiff soll zu Russlands Schattenflotte gehören. Nun durfte die Crew aber wieder aufbrechen.

Russian shadowfleet tanker suspected of launching drones over Denmark which was stopped by the French Navy has been allowed to continue its voyage

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Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It’s Under Russian Attack Russia’s drone incursions have made European societies aware they are being targeted, which is the first step to responding appropriately.

My latest WPR column

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-russi...

Yes there are some technical challenges, but we absolutely can do more to defend against drones over critical infrastructure and part of the reason why we haven’t in the past was that it simply wasn’t seen as a major threat.
Some comments for WELTTV.

We are woefully unprepared to counter people flying drones with malicious intent | Ulrike Franke Gatwick was not the first airport to be disrupted and the incident shows how difficult it is to fight back

2025?
No, 2018

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Landing page of BILD where all articles are about drones

I mean… we no longer have an attention problem, I guess.

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