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Fighter jets from the United Kingdom were scrambled to intercept a Russian military aircraft operating near UK airspace north of Scotland, NATO and the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) say.
Typhoon fighters took off from an RAF base in northeast Scotland on Sunday to intercept the Russian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft that approached UK airspace from the North Atlantic Ocean after flying in international airspace over the Norwegian Sea, the RAF said in a statement on Tuesday.
Fighter jets from the United Kingdom were scrambled to intercept a Russian military aircraft operating near UK airspace north of Scotland, NATO and the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) say.
Typhoon fighters took off from an RAF base in northeast Scotland on Sunday to intercept the Russian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft that approached UK airspace from the North Atlantic Ocean after flying in international airspace over the Norwegian Sea, the RAF said in a statement on Tuesday.
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