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| Northern European Fighter Incident |
| 2009-12-26 |
| (translated) German fighters patrolling the territory of Estonia are prosecuted by the Russian Su-27. Assistance to NATO by Finns. This is not a scenario of military maneuvers or war movie, but the real incident, which took place September 15, according to the military industry magazine "Loyal". Allegedly, two German machine Eurofighter approached the Baltic Sea west of Tallinn to czterosilnikowego jet aircraft Beriew A-50, trying unsuccessfully to establish radio communication with him. One of the German pilots photographed intruder. Then suddenly toward the German planes flew at a speed of two supersonic Su-27 fighters, but no one opened fire. All five aircraft were soon in the airspace of Finland, where it flew toward the Finnish F-18 fighters. They forced the Russians to retreat, escorting their way to the international waters of the Baltic Sea. The armed forces of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia do not have combat aircraft. Provide them with an air defense fighter aircraft of other NATO countries, based on a rotating basis at the airport near the Lithuanian city of Siauliai. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #3 To my knowledge, there are no AWACs tasked here in Estonia. There are radar installations operated by the country, and they share data with Finland over the Gulf of Finland. The Russians do this from time to time. A few years ago, a fighter tried to fly in low into Lithuanian airspace, and the idiot pilot crashed his plane. |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2009-12-26 07:42 |
| #2 Not good for the Eurofighters if they didn't know the Su-27s were there. Were they flying with AWACS back-up or were they depending on their own local radar? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-12-26 00:51 |
| #1 The A-50 is a Russian AEW aircraft. It sounds like the Eurofighters were vectored to flyby the AEW aircraft, which may have drifted into Estonian airspace and the two Su-27s responded undetected by the Eurofighters to the "threat". When the four fighter aircraft had drifted into Finn airspace, they were likely warned by the AEW and returned to Russian airspace. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-12-26 00:30 |