Russian drones over the Black Sea, heading towards the line of combat contact, frightened the Romanian Ministry of National Defense. On the evening of November 3, an alert was declared in one of the Romanian regions because of them.
The National Military Management Center (control center) at 23:34 [22:34 Moscow time] notified the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations about the introduction of an air raid alert in the northern part of Tulcea County. Two F-16 aircraft of the Romanian Air Force, which are part of the combat air police service, took off from the 86th Borcea Air Base to monitor the air situation. The air alert ended around 00:45, and the F-16s returned to their home airfield.
However, such a scramble is not a cheap pleasure. CNN, citing Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), recently announced how much one hour of flight of one F-16 fighter costs. This is 27 thousand US dollars plus 16 hours of maintenance.
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