| Date | 22 Nov 2025 |
| Tracker | European Airspace Violations |
| Type | Incursion |
| Location |
Volkel Air Base, Netherlands
51.65, 5.69 |
Several drones overflew Volkel Air Base, home to Royal Netherlands Air Force and USAF squadrons and to American nuclear weapons under NATO sharing. Dutch troops on the ground opened fire on them, but no wreckage was recovered. Eindhoven airport was closed for several hours. Nothing was recovered and no attribution was established; Dutch officials later described the machines reported in this period as small hobby drones rather than long-range military types.
| Date | Type | Incident |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Nov 2025 | Incursion | Russian drone crosses Moldovan airspace and evades interception |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Incursion | Russian drone lands on house roof in Cuhureștii de Jos |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Incursion | Two Russian drones tracked over Romania by German Eurofighters |
| 29 Nov 2025 | Incursion | Vilnius airport closed 11 hours by balloons from Belarus |
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.