BREAKING: Britain’s warfare and space force confirmed RAF jets intercepted a Russian plane flying close to Scottish airspace on Sunday.
RAF Lossiemouth-based Typhoon fighters were scrambled
The Russian Tupolev Tu-142 Tupolev, a reconnaissance aircraft, was spotted flying over the seas just north of Scotland on Sunday. The craft at no point entered British sovereign airspace; a Norwegian F-35A fighter aircraft was also scrambled to shepherd the Russian jet. While the RAF Typhoons took flight as they’re always on quick reaction alert, meaning ‘crews being held at continuous high readiness 24/7, so that they can take off within minutes to protect UK sovereign airspace’, the RAF said.
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