Russian bomber picked up the American destroyer – Polish Radio

Russian planes are increasingly running adventurous flights to provoke the air forces of Western countries Photo: PAP / ITAR-TASS / Yuri Smityuk

                             - The Baltic states are experiencing a dramatic intensification of military aviation provocative actions of Russia, which increases tension in the region already plagued by fears the expansion of Moscow’s political influence – alerts “Financial Times”. Russian planes also intensifying provocations against other Western countries.
                         

guarding the airspace of post-Soviet Baltic states of NATO fighters competed this year in emergency mode because of the threat the border of Lithuania 68 times – more often than ever for more than 10 years. Latvia recorded 150 “close incidents,” or cases nadlatywania and risky maneuver of Russian aircraft. Estonia reported that its airspace was violated in this year by Russian aircraft five times, while the previous eight years a total of seven times.
Object of provocations from the Russian Air Force is not only the former Soviet Republics, but also the Nordic state over Baltic coast.

This year there have already been five incursions into the airspace of Finland, which already happened twice yearly average.

September 17 – the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 – two tactical bombers, Su-24 flew over the Swedish island of Oland. Sweden’s foreign minister, former prime minister and co-author of the EU program “Eastern Partnership”, Carl Bildt described the incident as “the most serious breach of airspace” from the time when eight years ago he was appointed head of diplomacy.

Both the Nordic countries They are formally neutral, but in the face of the growing threat from Russia strengthen its relations with NATO.
Russian adventurism air is directed mainly against the Baltic states, but its intensification has a range of wider and also concerns other NATO countries, including Canada, USA, the Netherlands, Romania and the UK – selects the “Financial Times”.
September 17 two fighters F-22 US Air Force will pick up in alarm mode to capture off the coast of Alaska the six Russian military aircraft: two MiG-31, two Machine refueling aircraft IL-78 and two strategic bombers Tu-95.

The next day, two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets took off to meet with the two Tu-95 bombers over the Arctic Beaufort Sea.

These events coincided with the visits of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in Washington and Ottawa.
September 19 two British Typhoon fighter jets were sent from the base Lossiemouth in Scotland to intercept two aircraft Tu-95, approaching the northern reaches of NATO air defense zone.
writes, “FT,” in many cases do not occur crossing by Russian planes extending 12 nautical miles from the coast border airspace of NATO countries. The Russians limited themselves to fly into the air defense identification zone, where the movement of foreign aircraft are also covered by the audit.
In typical cases, the Russian machine excluded the transmitters in this zone identification code and changed the standard flight plan, or in general it did not represent, making them invisible to civilian air traffic control systems.

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