The Daily Populous Monday August 5th, 2024 night edition
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The German and Swedish air forces scrambled NATO jets on Aug. 3 after two Russian jets were detected heading toward Latvian airspace over the Baltic Sea.

The German Air Force reported that the jets from NATO's Baltic air-policing mission identified two Russian Su-30s.

The Russian pilots "behaved uncooperatively but not aggressively," the German Air Force said.

According to the German news outlet Bild, two German Eurofighters and two Swedish planes intercepted the Russian Su-30s.

The Russian jets were involved in a training exercise, but the flight plan had not been communicated beforehand, a German Air Force spokesperson told Bild.

"The transponders were switched off, and the pilots did not respond to radio requests," according to Bild.

NATO aircraft were scrambled 11 times in mid-June to identify and escort Russian aircraft that had violated rules while flying in international airspace, Lithuania's LRT news agency reported.

Most of the Russian aircraft were reportedly flying with no flight plans and had their onboard transponders turned off.

FansFightBugs on August 4th, 2024 at 15:38 UTC »

A few years ago Turkey (the country) simply shot one of these lost birds with its outdated map

Intelligent_Town_910 on August 4th, 2024 at 13:19 UTC »

Im pretty sure this needs no explanation for people who have lived next to russia, but they have been doing this to us here in Norway every other month since the 90s. They will fly jets/bombers straight towards the border and then turn away at the last second when interceptors are scrambled. I think its to test response times, because that's the sort of thing friendly neighbors do according to russia's chest-thumping caveman logic. This has been going on since the inception of russia itself so russia has never been friendly to anyone. They are actual cavemen. They dont want to take part in a civilized world community they only want war and death.

We mostly just roll our eyes at this childish stuff at this point but its also incredibly annoying. I wish every neighbor around russia would start doing it to them. All the time. If nothing else it would draw russian jets away from Ukraine, and if we are lucky a few of them would crash from wear and tear.

ash_ninetyone on August 4th, 2024 at 13:02 UTC »

Sabre rattling and response testing? Russia does this a lot tbh. Has done it with the UK by having a warship go close to territorial waters and that.