{"id":562223,"date":"2026-07-24T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=562223"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:37:12","slug":"romanian-fighter-jet-shoots-down-unidentified-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/romanian-fighter-jet-shoots-down-unidentified-drone","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Fighter Jet Shoots Down Unidentified Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Romanian F-16 fighter jet shot down an unidentified drone on Friday morning after it entered the country&#8217;s airspace. The drone was destroyed by a missile over an uninhabited area near the village of Padina, Romania&#8217;s Defence Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Romanian military personnel detected the unmanned aerial vehicle at 9:39 a.m. local time. Radar tracked it about 20 kilometres from the town of Sulina, located in the Danube Delta near the border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets and two Romanian F-16s were scrambled.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:02 a.m., a Romanian F-16 acquired the target and shot down the drone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Romanian F-16 fighter jet shot down an unidentified drone on Friday morning after it entered the country&#8217;s airspace. The drone was destroyed by a missile over an uninhabited area near the village of Padina, Romania&#8217;s Defence Ministry said. Romanian military personnel detected the unmanned aerial vehicle at 9:39 a.m. local time. Radar tracked it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":562222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a63405e6f64d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Romanian Fighter Jet Shoots Down Unidentified Drone"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[143121],"class_list":["post-562223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}