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NATO fighter jets were scrambled to intercept five Russian military aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea without flight plans or active transponders, the Latvian Air Force confirmed on Saturday.

The Russian planes were identified on two separate occasions, on Friday and Saturday, prompting a rapid response from NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission.

According to the Latvian Air Force, the Russian jets were detected flying in international airspace near the Baltic states, but had not activated their transponders, an electronic system that helps maintain safe air traffic control.

"Russian jets regularly enter the airspace above the Baltics with transponders switched off, likely to test the response of NATO states," The Kyiv Independent reported, citing past instances of similar activities by Russian aircraft.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Loads of countries have been doing shit like this for years. Turkish planes do it to the Greeks, US/UK do it to Lebanon and Palestine, China does it to Taiwan, The US does it to China, India and Pakistan probably do it too.

Not that it's a good thing, but they're just testing the detection and interception of NATO. Russia uses standoff weapons which it can deploy from its own airspace, so they don't have much use flying beyond their borders unless it's to cause annoyance to neighbouring air patrols.

Not worth the panicked headlines over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Not worth the panicked headlines over.

Yeah as a Finn, I remember there being a headline every few years of Russians doing this.

They did it before we were in NATO abd obviously it didn't make them stop.

Not worth the panicked headlines over.

Exactly