The Droneradar app from the start-up mainline.inc recorded the flight of a drone that crossed Lithuania after midnight on 11 November, 15min reports. The app works from sound signals picked up by residents' phones, and 15min describes it as a residents' radar built on Ukraine's example.
The drone entered Lithuania from Belarus through the southern border and flew north, past Kaunas and last over the Pasvalys area. NATO air policing fighters tried twice to shoot it down without success, and debris from one of their missiles fell in the Biržai district.
According to Giedrius Premeneckas, chief of the Lithuanian Armed Forces' Defence Staff, the drone crossed into Latvia, flew over the whole of Latvia, reached Estonia and then flew into Russian territory. An earlier alert that evening about a drone from Belarus heading for Švenčionys and Ignalina was called off after about half an hour, when that drone turned towards Latvia.
Audrius Zujus, the start-up's founder, told 15min what the app recorded, with times to the minute, and how it could help residents and the armed forces in future.
Background
Droneradar
Drone detection app
An app that detects drones from sound signals picked up by residents' phones.
