AirVeto — wind-corridor intelligence
AirVeto reconstructs the wind corridor for EU eastern border airspace events. Each incident page pairs sourced reporting with a frozen ICON-EU wind grid pinned to the event window.
What AirVeto publishes
AirVeto publishes incident reconstructions for airspace events on the EU’s eastern frontier — contraband balloon landings, stray-drone crashes, airport closures, and shoot-downs in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland. Each page combines sourced event reporting with an original wind-field analysis that no general news outlet produces.
The wind reconstruction is AirVeto’s core analytical contribution. It is generated from the ICON-EU model (Deutsche Wetterdienst) via Open-Meteo at approximately 11 km horizontal resolution, frozen to the event window, and stored as a 25-point grid alongside each incident record. For balloon incidents, the wind field reconstructs the corridor that delivered the object. For drone incidents, it provides meteorological context for the final leg. Full technical methodology is at /about/methodology.
Sourcing standards
Every named fact in an incident reconstruction is sourced to a named outlet or official body. Preferred sources: national public broadcasters (Yle, LRT, ERR, LSM/LETA), national defence outlets (Defense24, Militarnyi, Kyiv Independent), and official statements from border guards, defence ministries, and presidential offices. Aggregators and unverified social-media accounts are not used as primary sources.
A two-source minimum applies to every incident. AirVeto does not publish until at least two independent sources confirm the core event fact. Wind figures are sourced separately: each cites the meteorological model, pressure level, and UTC timestamp. No wind data is published without a traceable model source.
Corrections
Corrections are noted at the bottom of the affected article and the page’s dateModified field is updated — this propagates through the NewsArticle JSON-LD on the page. Structural corrections (wrong location, wrong date, materially incorrect fact) are noted explicitly with the nature of the change. Minor updates (corrected URL, spelling) update dateModified without a separate note. AirVeto does not silently delete or overwrite published incident records.
What AirVeto is not
AirVeto covers one domain: airspace events on the EU’s eastern frontier. It does not produce opinion columns, analysis of unrelated conflicts, or content outside this corridor. The wind reconstruction is not a forecast and not a trajectory model — it is a visualisation of a recorded meteorological field at a specific time and altitude. AirVeto is not for aviation, navigation, or safety-critical decisions.