Adding to previous episodes recorded this week, The Eurofighter fighters of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) once again intercepted aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces. During today, June 7, according to what was officially reported, a total of three Russian planes were intercepted.
Currently, since last February, the German Air Force has a detachment of five Eurofighter fighters in Latvia to carry out Air Police missions in the Baltic region. The presence of German media and personnel seeks to constitute a way to maintain NATO’s presence in the area, at a time when tension with the Russian Federation is reaching new levels with the authorization of various countries for Ukraine to use Western weapons against territory. Russian.
During today’s day, according to the Luftwaffe’s social networks, the presence of aircraft was detected which were flying without an informed flight plan or transponders turned on. Once the contacts were detected, the Eurofighters were deployed in order to intercept and identify them, as they were aircraft operated by the Russian Aerospace Forces.
In the first of them, it was an Antonov An-30 aircraft clankwhich is a derivative version of the An-24 specialized in enhancing aerial mapping missions for the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The second episode of the day involved two planes that were also intercepted by the Eurofighter, which revealed the presence of an Ilyushin Il-78 transport plane. Midas and a Tupolev Tu-204. Although no further information was required, these aircraft are used for cargo and passenger transportation missions. In the second case used by commercial airlines, which is indicative that they were making a connecting flight between continental Russia and its enclave of Kaliningrad.
As we have previously mentioned, 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 response times and patterns. of operation.
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