Gen. Viorel Pane, the Air Force chief of staff, said Thursday that Russian drones can be detected, but in the case of the Plauru drone wreckage, “the terrain is unlikely to detect objects that are developing at very low altitude.” , at very low speeds.” “The physics and limitations of these systems obviously cannot guarantee 100% detection,” he said, while General Daniel Petrescu, the chief of the defense staff, said he learned of the drone’s remains minutes after the conference. ended President Johannis, in which he denies the hypothesis.

Daniel Petrescu told CNN’s Antena 3 that he received information about the remains of the drone a few minutes after the end of President Iohannis’ conference, where he denied the hypothesis.

Gen. Daniel Petrescu, the chief of the defense staff, says he cannot order searches after every attack unless there are reports of fires, explosions, complaints from the local population, although locals told HotNews they still complained about the drones flying over. them above the houses, the Romanian authorities told them that they could not see well.

• “We cannot do a standard procedure after every drone attack on the territory of Ukraine, let’s check the territory on the territory of Romania,” he also said on CNN’s Antena 3.

He also noted that it was not an explosion on the territory of the country, that the trees were burning in the area, probably because “when it fell, the fuel that was in these elements of the drone caused a fire.”

“We don’t know, we’re still investigating.”

Why was the drone, the wreckage of which arrived in Romania, not discovered?

Gen. Viorel Pane, the Air Force chief of staff, says there are radar systems that can detect drones, but in this case, it was a heavily logged area full of vegetation.

• “The physics and limitations of these systems obviously cannot guarantee 100% detection, just as the law and technical capabilities cannot guarantee combat with 100% probability,” Viorel Pana told CNN’s Antena 3.
• “There was also a reorganization and the addition of these detection means, but we are talking about a very rough terrain, full of relatively high vegetation, we are talking about a terrain that hardly allows the detection of objects that develop at very low altitudes, at very high speeds. Also, many of these objects, since our discussion revolves around drones, we’re talking about objects with small reflective surfaces.”

Such drones are detected by radar, “only the probability of detecting a flying object is obviously directly proportional to the reflection surface.”

• “These drones are mostly built from non-metallic elements, and their reflective surface is small. This means that we see them, it is very likely that we see them, but there is a reasonable possibility that we cannot monitor them all the time,” explained General Viorel Pane. , Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
• “Let’s not imagine for a moment that the air defense of any country works in such a way that there is an impenetrable wall on the border,” the chief of the General Staff of the Air Force also said.
• According to him, “the process should go like this: I detect, I realize what I have detected, I make a decision to shoot down this target, fight it and fight it effectively.”
• “I want to say that the problem here is complicated by legislation, because we are talking about a country that is at peace. It is not at war with anyone. If an air target that is evolving at a very low altitude, in the neighboring airspace, is identified as an aggressor, at this very moment, on the vertical of the state border, the time required for the response of air defense means will never allow to destroy/shoot down this target within 30-40 m, which is the distance in the current case,” added General Viorel Pane.

Who still found the wreckage of the drone

The Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Mihai Panait, said that the remains of the drone were discovered by the servicemen of the Marine Corps Regiment.

“The commander of the marine infantry regiment with the research platoon subordinate to him. They are professional soldiers who know how to interpret all the data and all the information that was available at the time to identify the remains in the right place,” he told CNN Antena 2.

However, Tudor Chernega, the mayor of Cetalkioi, said in an interview with Libertatea on Wednesday that he personally found the remains of the drone on Wednesday morning and informed the prefect.

“I personally found them this morning. Nobody else. Then I immediately reported to the prefect,” said the mayor.

Defense Minister Ángel Tilvar announced on Wednesday that the first signs that remains that could be linked to unmanned equipment were found in Tulcea County were found only on Tuesday, around 6:00 p.m., and the information given to President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday, as the “drone” fell in our country, were correct at that time.

Romania’s Ministry of Defense confirmed on Wednesday that parts of a Russian drone used in attacks on the port of Izmail, located 250-300 meters across the Cilicia Arm, were found on Romanian territory.

NATO has no indication that the fragments of a drone found on the territory of Romania were caused by a deliberate attack by Moscow on our country, the head of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

In MApN’s latest report on Thursday, the ministry claims that Russia’s latest series of kamikaze drone attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube have been monitored “in real time”.

“From the information obtained with the help of electronic surveillance systems and with the help of other means of monitoring, no direct military threats to the national territory or territorial waters of Romania have arisen,” the message reads.

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