Incidents

Disconnected the navigation: Germany raised fighter jets to intercept the plane of the Russian Federation

The Air Force command claims that the Russian IL-20M has disconnected the transponder signal and was in the international airspace. After accompaniment, the Russian military aircraft changed the route. The Russian military aircraft flew into NATO airspace, after which Germany raised its fighters and accompanied it. This was reported in the military-air forces of Germany. "The IL-20m military aircraft flew without a transponder signal," the message reads.

According to the German Air Force, it was recorded identified a military aircraft in the international airspace near Rugen. But after escorting the fighters, he returned to the east. It should be noted that during 2023 the NATO Air Forces in Europe spent more than 300 departments to intercept Russian aircraft that were approaching the Alliance airspace. The bulk of these intercepts took place over the Baltic Sea. Earlier, the UK's military-air forces found Russian planes near NATO airspace.

The Alliance fighters were sent to their interception. In the morning of June 9, the British pilots again had to intercept one An-12 and one An-72 moving south of mainland from mainland in the Kaliningrad region. Later, two more TU-22m and two SU-30 were also flying south of the mainland Russia over the Gulf of Finnish and the Baltic Sea.