The drills took place last week at a training range in Zielonka near Warsaw, Polish state news agency PAP reported, citing the spokesman for Poland’s security services, Stanisław Żaryn.
Żaryn told the media that "the aim of the exercise was to assess the susceptibility of public space and critical infrastructure to drone strikes, and to raise the state’s resilience to related threats.”
Participants were instructed on “how best to counteract the operation of drones able to carry explosive devices which have been home-made for the purposes of a terrorist attack,” he added.
In addition, the drills “confirmed and verified the ABW’s capability to efficiently identify and neutralise UAVs used by hostile state and non-state actors,” Żaryn told reporters.
He added that such exercises "are part of best practice" and in combating terrorism.
“Counteracting terrorist attacks and acts of violence is the result of multi-faceted cooperation between the security services, defence agencies, research and science institutions and state counter-terrorism agencies,” Żaryn also said.
He added that the exercise was a follow-up to efforts launched by the ABW in 2021 “to combat threats related to the extremist use of improvised explosive devices and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons," the PAP news agency reported.
(pm/gs)
Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl