A drone incursion over Romanian airspace marks a dangerous strategic pivot in the Black Sea theatre. This is not a random act. It is a deliberate threat vector probing the seams of NATO’s eastern flank.
The UK-backed defence architecture is now under direct fire. If this was a Russian test, they have found a gap in our electronic warfare net. Our jamming protocols failed or were too slow.
The hardware gap is real. We are fighting a fifth-generation war with a second-generation sensor grid. This is a readiness failure.
The Minister must explain why our air defence could not neutralise a commercial drone with a payload. This is the shape of things to come: cheap drones overwhelming expensive defences. The Black Sea is now a shooting gallery and we are the targets.
