fighter jets were dispatched yesterday to intercept a Russian reconnaissance aircraft that infringed on Swedish airspace in the Baltic Sea. The Ilyushin Il-20 electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) aircraft was registered breaking into the Swedish flight information region close to the island of Gotland, which is widely seen as the most strategic location in the Baltic Sea.A pair of Eurofighter Typhoon jets were scrambled from an airbase near the German town of Laage to meet the Il-20, which NATO Air Command declared was not responding to requests for identification.
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