The Operations Command on 6 September completed checking the radar signal detected east of Lublin, from the side of Belarus. The military determined that there was no breach of Polish airspace, and systems registered a large flock of birds. The alarm was cancelled, but the fast consequence remains essential for the safety of Poland.
Poland's airspace has not been breached
The Operations Command of Types of Armed Forces reported on Sunday 6 September the completion of the verification activities. Analysis of indications of radiolocation systems showed that the signal did not indicate the intrusion of an unidentified object over the territory of the Republic of Poland. Radars have registered a large herd of birds. The military emphasized that there was no threat to the safety of the Polish airspace.
It was an update of an earlier alarm. After detection of a signal coming from Belarus The military began verification and sent a helicopter. At the time, the nature of the facility was not known, so the services had to take into account the actual breach of the state border.
Mi-24 checked the area of detection
A spokesperson for the Operations Command Colonel Jacek Goryszewski told Polsat News that an on-call Mi-24 chopper was sent to check the area. The traffic in parts of airspace to the east of Lublin was temporarily limited so that the crew could safely execute the task. The readiness of fighters was besides increased and the time needed to choice them up was reduced if the threat was confirmed.
At the same time, the Command informed that no Russian long-range aviation activity related to targets in Ukraine was observed in erstwhile hours. This is an crucial part of the assessment of the situation, but did not relieve the work to check the signal. At the east border of Poland, regular would be dangerous.
The final may sound harmless, but it does not give emergence to mockery of the procedure. The strategy detected traffic, the services activated verification, and the military reported the result to the public. This should be the safety mechanism: first check, then a clear message. False alarm is at the expense of vigilance, but an ignored signal could cost much more.
East border requires constant readiness
The Polish sky over the east part of the country remains an area requiring peculiar supervision due to the war in Ukraine and the actions of Russia and Belarus. fresh limitations on flights in the EP area R134 show that the state is ordering the rules of action in the advanced hazard area. Air border protection must combine permanent radar surveillance with fast field recognition.
Safety in the air cannot be separated from wider force on the Polish border. Protection of the Polish-Belarusian section remains the task of the state, whether the threat comes on the ground or appears as a vague signal on the operator's screen. Each case requires a separate, professional assessment.
For Poles, the consequence of this action means above all the deficiency of direct threat. A broader lesson is equally important. The sovereign state must see, check and respond and then inform citizens fairly. This time the radar saw the birds. However, the procedure was expected to work as if the safety of the Polish territory was at stake, due to the fact that that is why it exists.
Source: Virtual Poland, Operational Command of the RSZ for Interia, Republic of
Source: WP News
