By Sabine Siebold

BERLIN (Reuters) -The German military is setting up rapid response teams to counter acute drone threats, a top German military official said, most recently dispatching these experts to assist in Belgium.

“These anti-drone units are being established right now,” Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank, who heads Germany’s joint operations command and oversees the country’s defence planning, told Reuters in an interview.

The German defence ministry said late on Thursday it was sending counter-drone experts to Belgium after a request from the country, which has been struggling with an increase in drone sightings near military installations and civilian airports.

DRONE SIGHTINGS CAUSE HEADACHES ACROSS EUROPE

“An advance party of air force personnel have arrived in Belgium

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