Turkish F-16 Jets Shoot Down Stray Drone Over Black Sea
A Turkish F-16 fighter jet during an xercise at the General Nahit Senoglu Firing and Training Range in Ankara, Turkey, on Oct. 11.
Photographer: Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu/Getty Images
Turkey shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle over the Black Sea approaching its airspace, a rare military intervention by the NATO member amid regional tensions.
The drone was determined to have gone out of control and was destroyed by F-16 fighter jets away from residential areas as a precaution, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on X, without disclosing the origin or ownership of the drone.