(Daily Star)
Tom Towers June 17, 2019
Typhoon jets were called out twice this weekend to deal with Russian pilots flying towards Estonian and Finnish airspace.
On Friday, RAF personnel came up against an SU-30 fighter aircraft that was flying to the north of Estonia.
A Typhoon pilot from XI (Fighter) Squadron said: “We were scrambled to intercept a contact close to Estonian airspace in the early evening, between two periods of poor weather.
“Shortly after getting airborne we came alongside a SU-30 Flanker fighter aircraft.
“We escorted the fighter over the Baltic sea, around Estonia and passing over another Russian military transport aircraft in the process.”
On Saturday, RAF crews scrambled to intercept another Russian SU-30 Flanker fighter and an Ilyushin IL-76 Candid transport plane.
They were flying north from the Russian city of Kaliningrad towards Estonian and Finnish airspace.
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