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6/27/2025, 10:32:42 PM
>Mission off Usedom:
>Nato fighter jets intercept Russian aircraft
>Another incident over the Baltic Sea: On Friday morning, Eurofighter jets of the German Air Force intercepted a Russian spy plane, as BILD has learnt.
>The Ilyushin Il-20M aircraft, NATO codename ‘Coot-A’, registration number RF-95979, had taken off from Kaliningrad without a transponder signal and without a filed flight plan and was travelling westwards.
>The Russian aircraft was detected by NATO radar systems at 9.02 a.m. German time. It flew without radio contact from the area of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, heading directly for international airspace near Poland and Germany.
>At 9.16 a.m., NATO alerted the so-called Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) team of the German Armed Forces (on behalf of the Alliance).
>Just 16 minutes later, at 9.32 a.m., two Eurofighters took off from Laage airbase near Rostock. This was impressive proof of the high operational readiness of the German Air Force in this area.
>The German fighter planes reached their target at 9.54 am. In international airspace north of Poland, at the height of the Polish coastal town of Kolberg - just 100 kilometres from the German coast - the Eurofighters established visual contact and documented the Russian reconnaissance aircraft with a photo.
>But even after that, the Russian did not turn away. The Russian aircraft initially flew unperturbed in a westerly direction and only changed its course to the north around 40 kilometres from Usedom. There was therefore no violation of German airspace. Nevertheless, the manoeuvre can be seen as a clear provocation and test for the Western military alliance.
His smile and optimism: unperturbed
>Nato fighter jets intercept Russian aircraft
>Another incident over the Baltic Sea: On Friday morning, Eurofighter jets of the German Air Force intercepted a Russian spy plane, as BILD has learnt.
>The Ilyushin Il-20M aircraft, NATO codename ‘Coot-A’, registration number RF-95979, had taken off from Kaliningrad without a transponder signal and without a filed flight plan and was travelling westwards.
>The Russian aircraft was detected by NATO radar systems at 9.02 a.m. German time. It flew without radio contact from the area of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, heading directly for international airspace near Poland and Germany.
>At 9.16 a.m., NATO alerted the so-called Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) team of the German Armed Forces (on behalf of the Alliance).
>Just 16 minutes later, at 9.32 a.m., two Eurofighters took off from Laage airbase near Rostock. This was impressive proof of the high operational readiness of the German Air Force in this area.
>The German fighter planes reached their target at 9.54 am. In international airspace north of Poland, at the height of the Polish coastal town of Kolberg - just 100 kilometres from the German coast - the Eurofighters established visual contact and documented the Russian reconnaissance aircraft with a photo.
>But even after that, the Russian did not turn away. The Russian aircraft initially flew unperturbed in a westerly direction and only changed its course to the north around 40 kilometres from Usedom. There was therefore no violation of German airspace. Nevertheless, the manoeuvre can be seen as a clear provocation and test for the Western military alliance.
His smile and optimism: unperturbed
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