Royal Air Force Typhoon jets were scrambled last month as Russian military aircraft were seen operating near UK airspace. The incident, which happened on Sunday, April 30, has just been reported by the RAF.
They said that the Lossiemouth-based Typhoon fighters in the North of Scotland were scrambled to intercept a Russian military aircraft called a Tu-142 Maritime Patrol aircraft. The plane is known by the NATO code name as a Bear-F.
According to the RAF, the Tu-142 approached from the North-East and flew in international airspace over the Norwegian Sea and North Atlantic Ocean. At no point did the Russian aircraft enter UK sovereign airspace and Norwegian F-35A fighter aircraft were also launched as part of NATO’s response to the Russian aircraft to monitor the Russian aircraft.
