General Christopher Donahue, the head of the NATO’s ground forces, has announced that an anti-drone system will soon be deployed in Romania’s Danube Delta.
He has publicly assured that capability has already been tested, and Romanian and allied soldiers have been trained to use it.
He also says that it is in the final stages of implementation, “and I think you will see it soon”.
This comes after multiple drone incidents in Romania and Moldova in the past days.
As it happened, American Donahue visited the Mihail Kogălniceanu base in order to pay a visit to American soldiers for Thanksgiving. As fate would have it, the visit was interrupted by a Russian drone falling into a local resident’s yard in Vaslui.
The Russian drone flew over Romanian airspace for several hours. Four fighter jets, two of which were Romanian and two of which were German, were scrambled to track it, but none fired at the drone,
Eventually, the drone crashed and landed in Puieşti, Vaslui.
Romania’s Defence Minister Ionuț Moșteanu said that the German pilots who went after the Russian drone told him it was difficult to intercept because it disappeared from radar, leaving Romanian territory at one point and then returning.
He also specified that there is currently no legislation in place stopping pilots from shooting down drones should they find it necessary to do so.
He then went so far as to say that he more than anyone would have wanted them shot down but that he is convinced the pilots made the wisest decision.
Moldova displays Russian drone, summons ambassador over ‘unacceptable’ crash
