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Britain says it intercepted two Russian bomber aircraft north of Scotland (www.reuters.com)

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 39 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

LONDON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Britain said its Typhoon fighter jets intercepted two Russian maritime patrol bomber aircraft in international airspace north of Scotland on Monday, within NATO's northern air policing area.

"Pilots launched in their Typhoon jets to intercept two Russian long-range bombers this morning, monitoring them as they passed north of the Shetland Islands, ready to counter any potential threat to UK territory," British armed forces minister James Heappey said.

Britain said its Typhoon jets are routinely scrambled during such incidents to secure and safeguard its skies.

British pilots also recently led NATO's air policing mission in Estonia, where more than 50 similar air intercepts were carried out, it added.

Earlier on Monday, Russia said its strategic bombers had carried out routine flights over international waters in the Arctic.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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[-] andresil@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Why is this news, from the article this looks to be a fairly "routine" event? Not that I support Russia, but I imagine NATO forces are also engaging in similar behaviour somewhere else?

[-] normanwall@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I understand that Russia does these 'border buzz' exercises to test response times/capabilities and to irritate their enemies.

[-] SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 18 points 1 year ago

Ya this is one of those, it's routine and a big damn deal at the same time. Russia technically did nothing wrong. But at the same time they aren't exactly being good neighbors

[-] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

The UK isn't exactly a Russian neighbor.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Yes I believe there are some Scandinavian countries in quite a lot of water between the two.

Although I haven't actually checked lately perhaps they moved things around.

[-] steltek@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Glancing at Google Maps, a great circle route from Murmansk probably lets you skirt most national airspace.

[-] stephan262@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The only thing eyebrow raising about this is that they were bombers (assuming they actually were). Normally this sort of thing is done with recon aircraft.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Nah they've been running bears into disputed territories and known airspace violations, namely several excursions into Alaska.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/us-intercepts-russian-bombers-off-alaska-2-straight/story%3fid=97260923

Keep in mind these were aircraft that had been pulled out of retirement when Putin figured out their missiles are terrible and they don't have as many as claimed, they do probably still have billions of lbs of conventional bombs.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Putting Mr Magoo in charge of the navigation again, I see!

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