on Wednesday, may Danish F16-fly on the wings of the west coast of jutland, when two Russian bombers found themselves on the edge of the Danish airspace.
It writes TV2, which have been in contact with national defense.
Here confirms the press spokesman Søren Lindhardt, the two Russian aircraft type Tu-160 had to be rejected by two Danish fighter jets.
– We have met two Russian aircraft off the west coast of jutland, they came down from the north, he says to TV2.
As the aircraft reached british airspace, had aircraft from the Royal Air Force in the air, and the british pilots took pictures of the russians.
The Russian defense ministry confirms the flight on the ministry’s website, but call it a “scheduled flight” at 13 hours.
the Ministry complements with images that show the bombers have the companionship of the Danish F-16 aircraft somewhere over the North sea.
But according to the defence command is the pictures, the russians have put up as documentation of the incident 3. april, however, not from the date in question.
– We can see that the aircraft in the pictures do not correspond to them, we sent up, says Søren Lindhardt for TV2.
It is far from the first time that the Danish fighter jets have had to refuse and escort the Russian aircraft, there have been near Danish airspace.
the Incident 3. april is the third case in the course of three weeks, where Russian bombers have flown down along the coast of Norway and along the Danish west coast.
In all cases, Danish and british fighter jets responded. Here are the events taken place peacefully, and at no time did Russian planes violated Danish airspace. It confirms both the national defense and the Russian ministry of defense.
TV2 writes that the Russian Tu-160 bomber is the world’s fastest in active service. They have Nato-rapporteringsnavnet “Blackjack”.
the Machine can fly with up to two times the speed of sound and carry nuclear weapons. It has so far heard rare that this type of aircraft has flown near Danish airspace.
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