Romania’s defence ministry announced that a Spanish F-18 fighter jet pilot on a NATO air policing mission shot down a drone that was illegally breaching Romanian national airspace. This incident marks the fourth time this year that Romania has shot down an unmanned aircraft.
The drone was detected entering the country from neighbouring Moldova, approximately 24 km north of the southeastern Romanian city of Galati. The F-18 jet made radar contact with the target and received permission to engage it, shooting down the drone safely at 05:01 am.
The fragments of the drone appeared to have fallen in an uninhabited area between two villages. In July, Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilots shot down three Russian drones breaching national airspace for the first time after dozens of such incursions in the more than four years of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
