Germany sends fighters to Romania

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “NTV”, following the occurrence of some incidents on the border between Romania and Ukraine and the fall of the drones used by Russia or their remains in NATO territory, the German army now wants to help Romania with armed protection flights and an anti-drone device. /p>

Accordingly, the German army will act with four Eurofighters and a new defense system against drones to protect the borders of Romania, and the German Air Force will provide security NATO’s Southeast Wing participates in armed protection flights.

In this way, the NATO military alliance responds to incidents in which drones of Russian origin or their remnants fly over the Danube Delta.

Marcus Kuchenbauer, Lt. Col., who commanded a group of 150 men and women of the German army at the Mikhail Kogalnicano military airport near Constanta. said that Germany supports Romania in this deployment.

So far, there have been four cases of airspace violations on the Romanian side of the border with Ukraine, all of which are related to to the Russian attacks on the Danube ports of Ukraine. Of course, a very careful Western analysis has shown that these incidents were probably not intentional and on the part of Russia. On the other hand, there have been conflicts over the Black Sea. It made headlines when an American drone was apparently shot down by a Russian fighter jet.

Kuchenbauer also said: “We are very close and my pilots have been ordered to defend themselves.” act It has been explained that the German pilots with their Eurofighters will not leave the twelve-mile zone off the Romanian coast, so they will no longer fly into the conflict zone and signal a defensive mission.

The defense system against unmanned aerial vehicles (ASUL) and an anti-drone device introduced in 2022 were also moved to a camp in the area at a military base used by the German army. “We are deployed to protect equipment and personnel,” said one of the operation’s commanders. “The drones can be detected up to 40 kilometers away. A jammer can disrupt the connection to the missile’s remote control. The system has already been used in Mali and Estonia.” was used.

This is the third such deployment to Romania for the German military, after Eurofighters were already deployed there in 2021 and 2022. In addition The 31st squadron of the tactical air force “Boelcke” and the anti-aircraft missile force specialists with ASUL technology, soldiers from the air force equipment protection regiment “Friesland” are also present at the airport.

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