BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Romania shot down a suspected Russian drone after it crossed into its airspace on Sunday – the third such incursion in three days in the Eastern European nation that’s both a European Union and a NATO member, the country’s president said.
Two Romanian F-16 fighter jets scrambled from the Fetesti airbase, under NATO’s operational command, and shot down the drone over the Black Sea, the military alliance said.
Romania has acquired the MEROPS counter-drone system, which fires relatively cheap, three-feet long drones to take down incoming Shahed and other variants. That system is part of a broader hardening across the…
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