The UAV was tracked from the Black Sea and destroyed over an “unpopulated area,” according to the Romanian Defense Ministry
A Romanian F-16 fighter jet has shot down a drone that entered the country’s airspace, President Nicusor Dan has said. The drone incursion has not yet been blamed on any foreign military.
In a post on X, Dan said that the drone was intercepted around 11 am on Friday, and that an investigation has been launched. The Romanian Defense Ministry said that the drone was picked up by radar over the Black Sea earlier on Friday morning, and was tracked as it moved westward towards the port of Sulina.
It was intercepted over an “unpopulated area” around Padina, 90 km northeast of Bucharest, and destroyed with an air-to-air missile, the ministry added.
The incident is the third of its kind in Romania over the last two months. On June 5, a Ukrainian naval drone exploded near an oil terminal in Constanta, Romania’s largest Black Sea port, while three more detonated offshore. The drones were operated by the Ukrainian navy, which claimed that it lost control of the devices.
Disclaimer : This story is auto aggregated by a computer programme and has not been created or edited by DOWNTHENEWS. Publisher: rt.com
