The F-16 of Poland in Action
Modified Russian version of Shahed has flown at very low altitude to avoid radar detection. It was equipped with a Chinese manufacturing engine and exploded in a cornfield.
Polish authorities confirmed on Wednesday that a drone that claim to be Russian fell and exploded in a cornfield in East Poland.
The incident, which occurred near the village of Her goatabout 110 kilometers from the Ukraine border, it was not detected by the Polacs air defenses at the night of Tuesday-it was only discovered the next morning.
There were no victims or injured, but Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz classified the episode as another deliberate provocation of Russia.
“Russia is once again provoking NATO countries after incidents with drones occurred in Romania, Lithuania and Latvia ”, He said, according to, adding that Moscow has violated the Polish airspace at least ten times since 2022.
According to military guardians, the air defenses were placed in Maximum alert On Tuesday night, where Russia launched another vacancy of drone attacks and missiles against Ukraine.
By midnight, the radars had not detected any anomalies, and the forces returned to the normal state of readiness. Only at dawn on Wednesday did local authorities report the wreckage of a drone that had exploded in the fields near łuków.
Preliminary investigations point out that the device has flown at a very low altitude, in order to avoid radar detection.
“Nothing had happened that it showed us that something was out of normal,” said General Dariusz Malinowski, deputy commander of Poland’s Armed Forces Operational Command. “In our assessment, this drone is designed to be very difficult to detect, and that’s really the case,” he said.
Authorities continue to ascertain whether the drone intentionally entered the Polish airspace and what its origin was. Although he could have passed Belarus or Ukraine, the flight route has not yet been confirmed.
The first analyzes also indicate that the drone was equipped with a Chinese manufacture It is a self -destructive warhead, which suggests that it was a despair and not a large capacity explosive system.
Analysts recall that Russia often resorts to Iranian conception Shahed drones and its locally produced variants, such as Gerbera, which confuse the air defenses when transporting less powerful loads. A spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Defense confirmed that the downcast device seemed to be a Modified Russian version of Shahed.
BREAKING: A drone crashed and exploded in a field in eastern Poland, near the village of Osiny, just 40 km from Warsaw and 100 km from Ukraine’s border.
Polish Army says no airspace violations were detected from Ukraine or Belarus.
Police found burnt metal and plastic fragments…
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The Ukrainian forces have repeatedly reported the presence of Chinese components in destroyed Shahed drones, while European guardians accuse some Chinese companies of collaborating with Moscow in the modernization of these systems for Ukraine war.
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski stressed that Poland will present a formal protest.
“Another violation of our east airspace confirms that Poland’s most important mission in relation to NATO is to defend our own territory,” wrote Sikorski.
The Russian Ministry of Defense and the Russian embassy in Warsaw have not yet commented on the case.
