Romania shoots down drone breaching its airspace, says defence ministry
Romania said the drone was destroyed by a Spanish F-18 after entering its airspace, marking the fourth such shoot-down this year, officials said.
- On Sunday, a Spanish F-18 fighter jet on a NATO air policing mission shot down an unidentified drone illegally breaching Romanian national airspace at 05:01 a.m.
- The Defence Ministry reported that radars detected the drone entering from neighboring Moldova, some 24 km north of Galati, though officials did not specify its origin.
- Following standard protocols, the pilot "made radar contact with the target and received permission to engage it," the ministry said; fragments fell in an uninhabited area between two villages.
- This intervention marks the fourth unmanned aircraft shot down by Romania this year, following the destruction of three Russian drones by Romanian F-16 pilots in July.
- Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, NATO has faced repeated airspace breaches; an earlier Russian drone crashed into a Galati apartment block, injuring two people.
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The drone shot down by a NATO F-18 fighter after violating Romania's airspace "seems to be Russian." This was declared by the spokesman of NATO's military headquarters, Colonel Martin O'Donnell, stressing that the circumstances of the incident are still being investigated. Two Spanish F-18 fighters, employed in NATO's air patrol mission, shot down the drone that had trespassed in the Romanian territory. "Tonight, another drone entered Romanian n…
Spanish F-18 shoots down unidentified drone over RomaniaOn the night of August 16, a Spanish F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had invaded Romanian airspace from Moldova. The wreckage fell in a deserted area of Galati county.
Russia and Ukraine are once again interfering with extensive air raids. At the same time, a Spanish NATO fighter jet shoots down a drone over Romania.
Two Spanish fighters deployed in the NATO mission have intercepted an unidentified drone after violating Romanian airspace during a surveillance patrol, as reported by the Minister of Defence of the Eastern European country, Radu Miruta. “At 04.44, the entry of the target into Romanian national airspace was detected, 24 kilometres north of Galati. At that time, two Spanish F-18 fighter aircraft, which had already been put on alert as a precautio…
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Free Malaysia Today NewsSuspected Russian Drone Shot Down in Romanian Airspace
An F-18 fighter on a NATO air policing mission shot down a drone that illegally breached Romanian national airspace, the fourth unmanned aircraft shot down over the country this year, Romania's Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
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