Germany is drawing up plans to quickly ready its airspace if the country needs to defend itself, the air navigation service provider told Euronews, warning that airlines and airports remain too naive about the possibility of such an event, APA reports, citing Euronews.
"We are working currently with the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Transport on a requirement catalogue to be prepared for a defence case," Arndt Schoenemann, the chairman and chief executive officer of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, which oversees Germany's airspace, told Euronews.
"There are three levels of defence. The first level is that there is only a threat. The second level is that we have a NATO Article 5 defence case, and the third case is the defence of the country."
"For these three cases we are developing different requirements and we are obliged to fulfil them according to a clear master plan," he added.
After decades of underinvestment, Germany is now massively ramping up its defence spending with the aim of becoming Europe's strongest army.
Berlin's decision was spurred by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and warnings by its own intelligence agency that Moscow could test NATO's Article 5 with an attack on a member state before the end of the decade.
The military alliance has meanwhile adopted regional defence plans to ensure swift deployment of allied forces in the event of an attack, while the European Union has put forward multiple packages to boost the production and procurement of defence equipment and facilitate military mobility across the 27-country bloc.
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