| Date | 17 Oct 2025 |
| Tracker | European Airspace Violations |
| Type | Interception |
| Location |
Camp Reedo, Estonia
57.81, 26.95 |
Two unidentified drones overflew Camp Reedo, a US Army site in southern Estonia. One was brought down with an anti-drone gun; Estonian security forces were still searching for the machine at the end of October. No attribution was established.
| Date | Type | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sep 2025 | Incursion | Unidentified drones close Copenhagen and Oslo airports |
| 6 Oct 2025 | Incursion | Smuggling balloons from Belarus shut Vilnius airport |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Incursion | Russian Su-30 and Il-78 briefly enter Lithuanian airspace from Kaliningrad |
| 2 Nov 2025 | Incursion | Drones overfly Kleine Brogel air base and cross into the Netherlands |
GlobalMilitary.net's 2026 inventory snapshot shows nine NATO members — Iceland, Luxembourg, the three Baltic states, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia and Slovenia — hold no fixed-wing fighters, attack aircraft or bombers and depend on Allied air policing.
GlobalMilitary.net's incident log counts 45 established violations of European airspace between January 1 and August 16, 2026, against 31 for the whole of 2025 - and almost all of the growth sits in incidents that ended with a shootdown or an explosion on the ground.
An Italian Eurofighter on NATO Baltic Air Policing duty destroyed an unidentified drone over eastern Latvia before dawn on 14 August, the second time the alliance's quick-reaction force has shot one down over the country this year.