Padina - 24 July 2026: A drone was shot down over a remote field in eastern Romania on Friday. A Romanian F-16 pilot struck the unmanned aircraft near the municipality of Padina in Buzau County with an air-to-air missile. According to the local prefecture, debris landed in a wheat field. No one was injured, and no buildings or infrastructure were damaged.According to the Romanian Ministry of Defence, radar detected the drone at around 9:30 a.m. over the Black Sea, about 20 kilometres east of Sulina. The object then moved over ...
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