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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NATO fighter jet shoots down drone over Romania
A NATO official says the drone "appears to be Russian.”
A Spanish F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had violated Romanian airspace early Sunday morning, local station Digi24 reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The drone had entered the country from neighboring Moldova, a NATO spokesman said later. The drone was likely a Russian drone.
A drone violated Romania's airspace in the night and was shot down by a Spanish F-18 fighter engaged in NATO air surveillance mission. The episode took place in the area of Galati, in the east of the country, near the border with Ukraine and not far from the one with Moldova. The aircraft is [...] The article Drone violates Romania's airspace: shot down by a Spanish F-18. NATO: It seems to be Russian. It comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
The Alliance suspects that it was a Russian drone. It is the fourth aircraft on Romanian territory since the end of July.
In the early morning, a drone entered Romanian airspace. A fighter jet from Nato's partner Spain shot down the unmanned flying object.
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