This morning the interceptors of the German Air Force intercepted a Russian spy aircraft to the east of Rügen. Bild reviews this, explaining that at 9.14 the NATO Combined Air Operations Center discovered “Activities in the Kaliningrad area”. Only twelve minutes later the alarm was launched on the Rostock-Laage air base. Two Eurofighter made an emergency take -off to intercept the alleged Russian aircraft, which at that second was heading in direction of the German airplane of NATO.
At 9:45 the German drivers reported a radar contact with the aircraft and at 9:49 a visible contact. At that time it was clear, Bild nonetheless reviews: the aircraft, which didn’t ignite its transponder nor replied to radio messages, thus representing a major risk to civil air visitors, was a Russian spy of the Ilyushin Il-20m sort, NATO Code Name: “Coot-a”. The German looking planes escorted the Russian reconnaissance aircraft to the east of Rügen for a number of kilometers and took a photograph at 9:56 am. A couple of minutes later, Ilyushin turned once more and returned to fly to the Kaliningrad space. The German Eurofighter accomplished their mission on behalf of NATO after which carried out a coaching flight on the Baltic Sea. According to Bild, it’s not the primary time {that a} Russian reconnaissance aircraft approaches the German coast with out violating the German airspace and due to this fact of NATO. According to sources of the Air Force, this occurs “occasionally”.
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