Estonia Says NATO Jet Shot Down Drone in Its Airspace

Estonia’s defense minister said a NATO warplane shot down a drone over the country for the first time as the Baltic nations contend with incursions of their airspace by unmanned aerial vehicles.

“Our air radars and air force systems identified a possible aerial threat before it reached Estonia,” Hanno Pevkur told reporters in Tallinn on Tuesday, adding that a missile fired by a Romanian F-16 fighter jet stationed in Lithuania hit the drone.