In a new episode between military forces in the Baltic region, Eurofighter fighters of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) intercepted two aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces, one of which was a signals intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft.. The news was announced yesterday, June 4, on the social networks of the force, which maintains a detachment of five combat aircraft in Latvia in order to carry out Air Police Missions within the framework of NATO. .
In an increasingly tense regional context, the carrying out of various flights in the Baltic Sea region by aircraft of the NATO military forces and the Russian Armed Forces seek to test the detection and surveillance systems, measuring times response and operating patterns. This accounts for the performance of various types of flights carried out by surveillance and patrol aircraft, as well as others with even more specific functions such as those dedicated to signals intelligence missions. For example, during the month of February, the same protagonists had recorded one of the first episodes of this type of the year.
Following the latter, yesterday, the Eurofighter fighters of the German Air Force carried out the interception of two aircraft belonging to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which did not report their flight plan and which They performed in radio silence. The presence of the planes was detected by the Uedem Combined Air Operations Center in Germany, which generated the rapid response of the German combat aircraft.
Guided by radar systems to the detected contacts, the German planes reported the presence of two aircraft belonging to the Russian Armed Forces, an Ilyushin Il-20M (Coot-A) and an Antonov An transport plane. 12 CUB D. The first case gains relevance since it is a derivative version of the Il-18 used to carry out signals intelligence missions (SIGINT) by the Russian Aerospace Forces; while in the second case it is one of the many variants of the transport plane manufactured by Antonov, which was presumably making a connecting flight between continental Russia and the Kaliningrad enclave.
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