{"id":3537,"date":"2026-02-26T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/3537\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:20:09","slug":"belgium-bolsters-antwerps-security-with-new-air-defence-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/3537\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Bolsters Antwerp&#8217;s Security with New Air-Defence System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Belgium is set to strengthen security at the Port of Antwerp by deploying a sophisticated air-defence system. The Nasams system will address concerns raised by multiple drone incursions that temporarily shuttered airports last year, according to a report by Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen.<\/p>\n<p>Citing Prime Minister Bart De Wever, the newspaper noted that drones had been detected over sensitive areas, including nuclear facilities and a chemical site. The new defence apparatus is expected to protect the port and its critical infrastructure from short-range aerial threats such as drones and fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>The first battery of the defence system is slated to arrive by 2027, although requests for comment from the Port of Antwerp-Bruges and the Belgian government remained unanswered. This move underscores Belgium&#8217;s commitment to safeguarding its strategic assets against evolving threats.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Belgium is set to strengthen security at the Port of Antwerp by deploying a sophisticated air-defence system.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2918,19,76,7,2919,2920,2921,2305,696,235],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-air-defence-system","tag-antwerp","tag-bart-de-wever","tag-belgium","tag-drone-sightings","tag-nasams","tag-nuclear-plants","tag-port-of-antwerp","tag-port-of-antwerp-bruges","tag-security"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}