Russian Su-27 intercepts British jets over Black Sea
Russia’s Defense Ministry has announced that it scrambled Su-27 fighter jet to prevent three British warplanes from entering the country’s airspace over the Black Sea.
A Su-27 identified the three air targets as a U.K. Royal Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft and two Typhoon fighter planes, the ministry said in a statement, News.Az reports.“As the Russian fighter jet approached, the foreign military aircraft made a U-turn away from Russia’s state border,” the statement read, adding that the intercept prevented the British aircraft from trespassing into Russian territory.
The Russian military described a nearly identical confrontation of its Su-27 jets with British warplanes over the Black Sea in October last year.
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