Rdeči alarm: nevarno snidenje? Lovci Velike Britanije prestregli in »pospremili« ruska bombnika

Velika Britanija se je pohvalila, da je v sredo prestregla in »pospremila« dve ruski bombni letali, ki sta se približevali »britanski interesni coni,« severno od Škotske, so sporočili iz britanskih Kraljevih letalskih sil (RAF).

(Mail Online):#Moment #RAF jets kept Vladimir Putin's bomber in check : The Typhoons took off from Lossiemouth after two Russian Tu-95 Bear H bombers and two maritime patrol Tu-142 Bear F aircraft were tracked by the RAF near the .. #TrendsSpy https://t.co/l0WeMb2kfX pic.twitter.com/a0u3oGF4Kx

— NewsOnePlace.com (@newsoneplace) February 3, 2022

»Lovci Typhoon za hitro delovanje s sedežem RAF v Lossiemouthu, ki jih podpira Voyager iz RAF Breeze Norton, so imeli bližnje srečanje z letali, ki sta se približevala interesnemu območju Združenega kraljestva,« je razkril tiskovni predstavnik Kraljevih letalskih sil, poroča Reuters.

On 2 February, the RAF scrambled Typhoon fighter jets to intercept four Russian warplanes north of Scotland. Two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers and two Tu-142 Bear F maritime patrol bombers intruded into the airspace of the «zone of interests of Great Britain».#UADataTime pic.twitter.com/yesZgrcpty

— MykytiukOleksandr (@Oleks_Mykytiuk) February 3, 2022

»Po tem smo prestregli in pospremili dve ruski letali Tu-95Bear F,« je dodal.

Picture shows ‘Blackjack’ bomber, but in this cases it was older turboprop planes—two Tu-95 Bear H bomber aircraft & two Tu-142 Bear F reconnaissance aircraft—flying north of Scotland.
“Nothing to do with Ukraine.” https://t.co/HHmLiSdmKH

— Michael O'Rourke (@MichaelACT123) February 2, 2022

RAF navaja, da redno izvaja takšne operacije in da ruska letala naposled niso vstopila v suvereni zračni prostor Velike Britanije.

Povišane napetosti v zračnem prostoru so posledica krize med zahodnimi silami in Rusijo zaradi Ukrajine.

Oh come on, so wasting tax payers money! They weren't in our airspace!

— Bigfoot (@realbigfootpete) February 3, 2022

To je že drugič v tem tednu, da je RAF prestregel in preganjal ruske bombnike, poroča BBC.

Norwegian F-35A Joint Strike Fighters scrambled 2 Feb to watch a Russian aircraft group pass outside Norwegian air space en route to the North Sea. Aircraft included a Beriev A-50 airborne control plane as well as Tu-95, Tu-142 bombers and MiG-31 fighters https://t.co/74xaJQmvzk pic.twitter.com/MaHWl0gabA

— Chris Cavas (@CavasShips) February 3, 2022

In vse to kljub dejstvu, da le-ti niso vstopili v zračni prostor Velike Britanije ali kakšne druge NATO države.