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 "slug": "bundeswehr-sabotage-risk-considerable-second-highest-level-wunstorf-drone-explosive-a400m-base",
 "title": "Bundeswehr Rates the Russian Sabotage Risk 'Considerable', Its Second-Highest Level, After Explosive Is Found Near Wunstorf",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/bundeswehr-sabotage-risk-considerable-second-highest-level-wunstorf-drone-explosive-a400m-base/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/bundeswehr-sabotage-risk-considerable-second-highest-level-wunstorf-drone-explosive-a400m-base/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-10-21T18:42:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-10-23T18:42:24.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBerlin, 21 October 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * An internal Bundeswehr security analysis, reported by WDR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung on 21 October, rates the threat of Russian sabotage against the armed forces as \"considerable\", the second-highest level on its scale; the Bundeswehr's Operational Command and the defence ministry confirmed the rating\n * The reassessment follows the drone found in mid-September about a kilometre from the Wunstorf air base, home of the Luftwaffe's A400M flee",
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 "tags": [
  "grey-zone-hybrid",
  "dez-german-defense-zeitenwende"
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 "entities": [
  "bundeswehr",
  "germany",
  "russia",
  "ukraine"
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