On July 29 – August 4 NATO fighter aircraft conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states carried out 14 alert scrambles to identify and escort military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.
On July 29 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted three SU-24s flying from the mainland of the Russian Federation to Kaliningrad with their onboard transponders off, without the pre-filed flight plans, and without maintaining radio communication with the regional air traffic control centre.
On July 29 NATO air policing fighter aircraft intercepted one AN-26 flying from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad according to a pre-filed flight plan, without using its onboard transponder, maintaining radio communication.
On July 30 NATO aircraft guarding the Baltic skies intercepted one AN-26 flying from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad according to a pre-filed flight plan and keeping radio communication but with its onboard transponder off.
On July 31 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted one A-50 aircraft flying from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad with its onboard transponder off, without the flight plan, keeping radio communication with the regional air traffic control centre.
On July 31 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted two IL-38 aircraft on heading for Kaliningrad from the mainland of the Russian Federation with their onboard transponders off, according to pre-filed flight plans, without maintaining radio communication.
On July NATO Baltic air policing fighter aircraft intercepted one AN-26 aircraft flying from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad with its onboard transponder off, with a flight plan, maintaining radio communication.
On August 1 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted one IL-38 and two SU-27 aircraft flying from Kaliningrad and back, without the flight plans, onboard transponders off, without maintaining radio communication.
On August 1 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted one AN-26 flying from Kaliningrad to mainland Russia with its onboard transponder off, according to a pre-filed flight plan, maintaining radio communication with the regional air traffic control centre.
On August 1 NATO air policing fighter aircraft intercepted two SU-24 aircraft flying from Kaliningrad and back with their onboard transponders off, without the flight plans, without maintaining radio communication.
On August 1 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted two SU-24 aircraft flying from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad with their onboard transponders off, without the flight plans, without maintaining radio communication.
On August 2 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted two SU-27 and one IL-38 aircraft training in an exercise over the Baltic Sea, the aircraft took off from Kaliningrad and flew back to Kaliningrad, without using the onboard transponders, without the flight plans, without maintaining radio communication.
On August 2 NATO fighter aircraft conducting the Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states intercepted two SU-27 aircraft which took off from Kaliningrad and later returned to Kaliningrad while training in an exercise in the airspace over the Baltic Sea. Onboard transponders of the aircraft were off, no flight plans had been pre-filed, radio communication was not kept.
On August 2 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted one IL-38 aircraft training in an exercise over the Baltic Sea, the aircraft flew from and back to Kaliningrad with its onboard transponder off, without the flight plan, without maintaining radio communication with the regional air traffic control centre.
On August 4 NATO fighter aircraft intercepted one A-50 and two SU-27 aircraft flying from Kaliningrad to mainland Russia. The A-50 had its onboard transponder off, maintained radio communication and had the flight plan, neither of the SU-227s had the flight plans, nor maintained radio communications, their radio transponders were off.
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