Romania shoots down drone breaching its airspace, says defence ministry
Romania said the drone was destroyed after radar contact, marking the fourth unmanned aircraft it has shot down this year.
- 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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vienna.atA NATO fighter jet shot down a drone over Romania - it was the fourth one that was intercepted over the country this year. Most recently, there had been repeated incidents in Eastern European NATO countries.
Two Spanish fighter jets were mobilized after the aircraft was detected near the border with Moldova and Ukraine.
A drone, which had entered Romanian airspace near the borders with Ukraine and Moldova, was shot down on Sunday by a Spanish fighter plane on mission in this NATO country, said the Romanian Minister of Defence. ...
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Gazeta.uaA Spanish F-18 fighter patrolling the skies over Romania was shot down on the night of August 16 by an unknown drone crossing Romanian airspace from the Moldovan side.
Spanish F-18 Jet Shoots Down Intruding Drone over Romanian Airspace: Defence Ministry
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. According to the ministry statement posted on X, the surveillance systems first detected the aerial intrusion on the intervening night of August 16 at 04:44 AM local time. The target entered Romanian airspace from the Republic of Moldova. World News | Spanish F-18 Jet Shoots Down Intruding Drone over Romanian Airspace: Defence Ministry.
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