{"id":1454052,"date":"2026-10-17T19:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/romania-scrambled-f-16s-to-shoot-down-drones-near-snake-island\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:53:11","slug":"romania-scrambled-f-16s-to-shoot-down-drones-near-snake-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/romania-scrambled-f-16s-to-shoot-down-drones-near-snake-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania scrambled F-16s to shoot down drones near Snake Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>On Saturday, October 17, two drones flew into Romanian airspace, followed by F-16 fighter jets. The Romanian military shot down both drones after they crossed state airspace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MApNRomania\/status\/2111485359187996817\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the Ministry of National Defense of Romania.<\/p>\n<p> Romanian radar systems detected a group of objects approximately 120 kilometers east of Snake Island in the Black Sea. The objects were moving in a southwesterly direction.<\/p>\n<p> In response to the detection of the objects, F-16 fighters of the Romanian Air Force were scrambled.<\/p>\n<p> After two drones entered the country&#8217;s airspace, Romanian fighter jets shot them down.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, NATO ambassadors in Brussels next week will discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nato-zbyraie-posliv-cherez-ataky-droniv-na-sudna-v-chornomu-mori-shcho-vidomo\/\">the increase in attacks on ships near Romania and Bulgaria<\/a> . The reason for the meeting was the recent incidents with drones, which resulted in two ships catching fire and seven sailors going missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lohika-pidkazuie-komu-tse-vyhidno-pislia-ataky-droniv-bolhariia-zvernulasia-do-nato\/\">on October 13, drones attacked two ships near the coast of Bulgaria.<\/a> According to preliminary data, one of them sank. The entire crew, including seven Ukrainian citizens, was evacuated from the other.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, October 17, two drones flew into Romanian airspace, followed by F-16 fighter jets. The Romanian military shot down both drones after they crossed state airspace. This was reported by the Ministry of National Defense of Romania. Romanian radar systems detected a group of objects approximately 120 kilometers east of Snake Island in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1303977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-1454052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategoriyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1303977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}