UK Scrambles F-35 Jets After Russian Aircraft Approaches Carrier

British F-35 jets intercept Russian aircraft in Norwegian Sea

British F-35 jets intercept Russian aircraft in Norwegian Sea

UK fighter jets escort Russian aircraft away from carrier strike group: ‘Unsafe and unprofessional’

U.K. fighter jets intercepted and escorted a Russian aircraft away from a carrier strike group after it repeatedly flew close. On Monday, a Russian Tu-142 “Bear-F” maritime patrol craft, derived from the famous Tu-95 bomber, made repeated close passes at the strike group. During these passes, it dropped several sonobuoys, a listening device used to []

Britain F-35 fighters intercept Russian aircraft near NATO aircraft carrier in the Norwegian Sea

LONDON, July 06 (YPA) – The British Ministry of Defence announced that F-35 fighter jets intercepted a Russian reconnaissance aircraft that approached a NATO aircraft carrier group in the Norwegian Sea. In a statement, the ministry explained that the Russian Bere-F maritime patrol aircraft flew at low altitude several times near the task force led []

Jets scrambled to intercept Russian plane ‘dropping devices’ near UK flagship carrier

It ‘repeatedly approached’ the HMS Prince of Wales A Russian plane came “unnecessarily close” to Britain’s flagship carrier in the Arctic Circle, and UK fighter jets were scrambled to intercept it in response, it has been revealed. Prior to dropping a “large number” of tracking devices into the water, a Russian “Bear F” aircraft “repeatedly []

Russian nuclear bombers skirt NATO territory, pick up trail of Norwegian fighter jets

Norwegian F-35 fighter jets escorted Russian Tu-160 nuclear-capable bombers during a long-range training flight over the Barents and Norwegian Seas on Monday, June 22. The Russian aircraft flew through international airspace near NATO territory as part of what Moscow described as a scheduled 16-hour mission. The incident unfolded in the increasingly strategic Arctic region, where...