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Comment by walrus01

2 days ago

URL appears to go to home page of RO military, another URL is: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260726-romanian-jet-sho...

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jubilanti  2 days ago

Nice to see a France24 link in the wild, it is a very underrated news outlet

  • walrus01  2 days ago

    France24 does a lot of very solid work related to one of my particular areas of interest in the Iran/Afghanistan/Pakistan region. It's also a great alternative to any US news sources even for news about what's going on domestically in North America (though the CBC has more breadth of coverage, for sure).

  • mlinksva  2 days ago

    Including on the dimensions of (1) having a very fast website and (2) not having any paywalls. Feels very good to read.

  • ekianjo  2 days ago

    Yeah a solid propaganda arm of the French government

    • renox  2 days ago

      Not the only one though: I remember what happened when we 'invaded' Lybia: not one criticism in the French news anywhere, total censorship, even though our media had widely and correctly criticised the US for the Irak war..

      So I think the best thing is to get news from everywhere Russia, China, the US, Europe, but that's a lot of work..

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close04  2 days ago

The home page shows 3 consecutive press releases for the past 3 days each detailing a similar incident.

The first drone on 24.07 took ~80min to intercept and shoot down, well into the country. The other 2 were shot down within kilometers of the border so they’re paying closer attention.

  • bestham  2 days ago

    The asymmetry between the drones and the F16 neutralising them quickly makes this financially unsustainable.

    • lukan  2 days ago

      Yes, but it also trains the pilots and everything around them for real action in a non war environment (you cannot just shoot anywhere in civilian airspace).

      And they would need to train anyway.

      But for a real conflict, sure, more economical solutions are on the way.

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    • spiderfarmer  2 days ago

      I love how people are pointing this out thinking NATO countries aren’t currently doing a Manhattan-light on drone defense.

    • firefax  2 days ago

      I think the idea is that you don't keep sending just one F16, but the problem is long before an age of drones we built up some catch me if you can bullshit where we expect smaller countries to ignore airspace violations.

      Like bro... you got a GPS. Get the fuck out of here.