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BumRushDaShow

(160,105 posts) Sun Sep 14, 2025, 08:32 AM Sunday

Romania reports Russian drone in its airspace as Poland scrambles jets again

Source: The Guardian/AFP

Sat 13 Sep 2025 20.51 EDT

Romania became the latest Nato member state to report a drone incursion into its airspace , with Poland scrambling aircraft in response to fresh Russian drone strikes just over the border in Ukraine.

Romania’s defence ministry said on Saturday its airspace had been breached by a drone during a Russian attack on infrastructure in neighbouring Ukraine. Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets late on Saturday to monitor the situation after the strikes, the ministry said in statement.

The jets “detected a drone in national airspace” and tracked it until “it disappeared from the radar” near the Romanian village of Chilia Veche, it added.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia was deliberately expanding its drone operations and that the west needed to respond with tougher sanctions and closer defence cooperation. The latest drone incursions were “an obvious expansion of the war by Russia”, he said. “The Russian military knows exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can operate in the air.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/14/romania-reports-russian-drone-in-its-airspace-as-poland-scrambles-jets-again

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Romania reports Russian drone in its airspace as Poland scrambles jets again (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP

JFC. Not an accident. no_hypocrisy Sunday #1

Doesn't say anything about..... Butterflylady Sunday #2

I think Iran has been supplying many of Russia's drones BumRushDaShow Sunday #3

Didn't one of our drones crash in Iran some years ago - I wonder how much of Iran's drones are based on that US drone ClaudetteCC Sunday #4

Yeah but that was a gigantic (plane size) one BumRushDaShow Sunday #5

they still need analogous guidance systems and communications ClaudetteCC Sunday #9

But the bigger drones are more complicated BumRushDaShow Sunday #10

Certainly. I expect the tech was old but it was a good jumpstart ClaudetteCC Sunday #11

And Belarus has its army massing against its western border for "military exercises." Sound familiar? PSPS Sunday #6

Just testing the waters.... Bayard Sunday #7

Putin is telegraphing in advance his intentions. Here it comes....... SupportSanity Sunday #8

no_hypocrisy

(53,048 posts)

1. JFC. Not an accident.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 08:49 AM

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Butterflylady

(4,535 posts)

2. Doesn't say anything about.....

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Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:50 AM

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Drone having "made in USA" , parts. Downed drone had that inside, gee I wonder how that happened? Could it be that "we" gave them to Russia?

Just asking......

BumRushDaShow

(160,105 posts)

3. I think Iran has been supplying many of Russia's drones

Reply to Butterflylady (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:56 AM

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What seems to be amazing to me is the whole massive manufacturing process that must be going 24/7 for the number that have been claimed to have been fired/intercepted.