BERLIN — Air force fighter jets from Germany and Sweden were scrambled Sunday to intercept and track a Russian surveillance plane that was flying unidentified over the Baltic Sea, military officials said.
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Air force fighter jets from Germany and Sweden have been scrambled to intercept and track a Russian surveillance plane that was flying over the Baltic Sea
Military officials say two Swedish Gripen jets and two German Eurofighter jets deployed in international airspace Sunday to monitor and photograph the Russian IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft
They said it had been flying without providing a flight path or radio contact that could signal its presence, military officials said
The monitoring, which ended without incident, comes as NATO and European Union member coun