On the evening of August 4th Leipzig-Halle Airport in Germany came close to(险些，差一点) disaster. A drone carrying 800 grams of plastic explosives(塑料炸药) was flown into the wing of a fully fuelled Ukrainian Antonov An-124, but the bomb fell off the drone instead of detonating. Had it done so, the giant transport plane, used by Ukraine and NATO to carry military loads, would have gone up in a fireball, as would a second An-124 parked next to it.(如果炸弹引爆，这架巨型运输机连同旁边的另一架安-124都会化为火球。)
8月4日晚，德国莱比锡-哈勒机场险些遭遇灾难。一架携带800克塑料炸药的无人机撞上了一架满载燃料的乌克兰安-124运输机的机翼，但炸弹从无人机上掉落，并未引爆。如果炸弹引爆，这架用于乌克兰和北约运送军事物资的巨型运输机，连同停放在旁边的另一架安-124，都将化为火球。
The drone, an FPV-style quadcopter(四轴飞行器), had been caught on camera(被摄像头拍到) entering the perimeter(周边，边界) hours earlier. But no one noticed it until morning, when a bus driver spotted it, held it down with his foot and raised the alarm. The significance of the attempted attack for the future of airport security can hardly be exaggerated, says Charlie Edwards of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, who co-authored a report last month on Russia’s drone campaign against Europe.(这次未遂袭击对机场安全未来的重要性怎么强调都不为过。)
这架无人机是一架FPV风格的四轴飞行器，数小时前就被摄像头拍到进入机场周边区域。但直到早上，一名公交车司机发现它，用脚踩住并发出警报，才有人注意到。国际战略研究所的查理·爱德华兹表示，这次未遂袭击对机场安全未来的重要性怎么强调都不为过。他上个月参与撰写了一份关于俄罗斯对欧洲无人机行动的报告。
It was a brazen(厚颜无耻的，公然的) escalation(升级，加剧) over last year’s wave of reconnaissance and disruption drones around the continent. Leipzig-Halle is a big logistics hub for NATO and Ukraine. An attack with an armed drone is less hybrid warfare than warfare, full stop(句号，到此为止). Germany has not formally attributed(归因于) it to Russia. But sources believe it soon will.
这是对去年欧洲大陆一波侦察和干扰无人机行动的公然升级。莱比锡-哈勒是北约和乌克兰的重要物流枢纽。用武装无人机发动袭击，与其说是混合战争，不如说就是战争，句号。德国尚未正式将其归咎于俄罗斯，但消息人士认为很快就会。