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| Finnish, Danish & Swedish jets scrambled over Russian strategic bombers' routine flight over Baltics |
| 2017-06-17 |
 Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers have performed a planned routine flight over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed, adding that the air group was intercepted by western Air Forces on several occasions.
“As a territorial surveillance authority of Finland, the Finnish Air Force has ordered its F/A-18 Hornet multi-role fighters on Quick-Reaction Alert (ORA) duty to identify and photograph the Russian military aircraft observed in the international airspace in the vicinity of Finland’s airspace,” the country’s military announced in a statement." |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
