German and British fighters intercept three unidentified Russian military planes

Three Russian military planes that they were flying without transponder signals were intercepted in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) reported on Wednesday. UK and Germany sent Eurofighter fighters to identify the airplanes.

“Reconnaissance aircraft intercepted. German and British Eurofighter alerted to identify three military aircraft,” the German air force wrote on Twitter. He specified that it is two Russian SU-27 and one IL-20 military aircraftwhich “were again flying without a transponder signal in international airspace over the Baltic Sea”.

Russian military aircraft fly regularly from Russia mainland to Kaliningrad and vice versa, which means that such encounters are quite routine in the region.

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Since the NATO states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania do not have their own combat aircraft, the military alliance has protected the baltic airspace since 2004 in northeastern Europe. To do this, the allies periodically deploy in turns combat aircraft and personnel to the Baltic states bordering Russia.

The German army handed over after eight months at the beginning of April the command of the mission of NATO aerial surveillance of the United Kingdombut until the end of the month it will continue to be supported by the German air force, which will begin its withdrawal at the beginning of May.