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13:17, UK,
Thursday 26 July 2018
RAF Typhoons have been scrambled to intercept a Russian bomber plane flying near NATO airspace over the Black Sea.
Two British jets based in Romania were launched in response to the Russian Su-24 FENCER aircraft earlier this morning.
In a statement, the RAF said its pilots patrolled the skies for a short period as a deterrent
after the Russian plane was "close to infringing NATO airspace".
The Typhoons were operating from the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base near Constanta on the Black Sea coast.
A pilot from 1 (Fighter) Squadron said:
"When we received the message to scramble, we sprinted to the jets with our engineers,
fired up the aircraft and took off all within a matter of minutes.
"We were then vectored toward the unknown Russian aircraft who were close to infringing NATO airspace.
"The Russian aircraft did not enter NATO airspace
so we were ordered to patrol the skies for a short period of time as a deterrent,
until finally returning to MK Air Base.