British Typhoon fighter jets intercepted two Russian Tu-160 bomber planes heading towards British airspace on Wednesday, a spokeswoman from the Ministry of Defence said.
The British aircraft were scrambled from a Royal Air Force base in eastern England and escorted the Russian planes while they flew in an area which is closely monitored by Britain, but outside its territorial airspace.
“At no point did the Russian aircraft enter UK territorial airspace,” the spokeswoman said, without giving more specific details of the location of the incident.
The Russian Defence Ministry did not respond to written questions submitted by Reuters.
Intercepts of Russian aircraft by NATO have increased over the last year amid heightened tensions between the West and Moscow over Ukraine. There was a similar incident last November.
(Reporting by William James and Jack Stubbs in Moscow; editing by Kate Holton)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-russia-fighters-idUKKCN0VQ1YL
Soo nothing actually happened but the Brits wanted to bang the war drums and strike up some fear? The stage is being set, unless I am misreading this? Help?
Yea….Uh huh….. As we say on a tennis website; “Pics….or it didn’t happen”
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I’ll bet crap like this goes on all the time
Only when it’s convenient do they bother to bring it up
Saber rattling, pure and simple. UUhh! I’m scared of the sissy boy, generational inbred pedophiles who may “break a nail” in battle. Didn’t we whoop there ass a couple times already?
The British, all prim and proper, will be dealt with along with the Israelis. They’ve been in “cahoots” for centuries. So, when some british asswipe like Richard Harris in “The Unforgiven”, comes along, you just swat him like a mosquito, an annoyance to your freedom.
“God save the Queen”. Damned right, for hanging.