A Spanish NATO jet shot down a drone over Romania, the fourth this year

A drone that entered Romanian airspace from Moldova was detected at 04:44 about 24 kilometres north of Galați and shot down at 05:01 by a Spanish F-18 flying a NATO air policing mission from Mihail Kogălniceanu air base. The wreckage is believed to have fallen on unpopulated land between the villages of Băleni and Cudalbi. It was the fourth drone destroyed over Romania this year, after Romanian F-16s brought down three in July, the first time the country itself had destroyed such aircraft following dozens of incursions.

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