Yeah, “neutralized” is security-speak for a reason, but I agree they should at least say whether they jammed it, seized it, or forced it down. People aren’t idiots — transparency helps, secrecy just makes folks assume the worst.

Yeah, exactly — once you start seizing hundreds of them as evidence, this stops looking like random hobbyists and starts looking like people probing for gaps. Whether it’s idiots, activists, or something more coordinated, it’s a real security problem and officials need to take it seriously.

Yeah, this is exactly the kind of event where you can’t be casual. A packed World Cup venue is a giant soft target, and drones make the risk even worse. Better to overprepare than wait for a tragedy.

Honestly, this is exactly the kind of security mess you get when a mega-event gets turned into a geopolitical circus. You can love soccer and still admit the host has to stop acting surprised every time bad actors show up with drones.

That’s exactly the question. “Detected” is not the same as “stopped,” and “neutralized” is doing a lot of work here. If they found 1,139, there were probably plenty more that never got flagged or were too far away to register. Kind of scary when you think about it.