The seemingly prevailing question echoing throughout the social media during these alerts was simple – why are these drones allowed to fly freely? The answer to this question might seem harsh, but the reality is that the Baltic States simply don’t have the necessary equipment to easily track, let alone destroy the UAVs. And the Baltic States are not the only countries facing this issue. As the war US-Iran war has shown, even countries with massive defense budgets could hardly counter the cheap, mass-produced drone threat.