Incident over the Baltic Sea: A Russian plane without a transponder signal enters Latvian airspace. The Air Force reacts.
The German Air Force says it intercepted a Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea. Eurofighter fighter jets took off from the Latvian base in Lielvarde on Saturday to intercept an IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft, the air force said in online service X. The machine was therefore traveling without a transponder signal.
As part of NATO, Germany participates in air surveillance over the Baltic states, which do not have their own combat aircraft.
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There have been several incidents with Russian military aircraft in the Baltic Sea region in the past.
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