NATO fighter jets were scrambled to intercept five Russian military aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea without flight plans or active transponders, the Latvian Air Force confirmed on Saturday.

The Russian planes were identified on two separate occasions, on Friday and Saturday, prompting a rapid response from NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission.

According to the Latvian Air Force, the Russian jets were detected flying in international airspace near the Baltic states, but had not activated their transponders, an electronic system that helps maintain safe air traffic control.

“Russian jets regularly enter the airspace above the Baltics with transponders switched off, likely to test the response of NATO states,” The Kyiv Independent reported, citing past instances of similar activities by Russian aircraft.

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Can anyone tell me what this extra 2 pairs of winglets and mini-fuel tanks are?

Edit: I see it now. Thanks to @MonsterMonster@lemmy.world and @cygnus@lemmy.ca for making me realize it’s 2 Typhoons 1 over the other.

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Glad I wasnt the only one lol

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Multi canard drifting???

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3 kids in a trenchcoat

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That pic is extremely confusing. After staring at it for 10 seconds I realized there’s another Typhoon below the topmost one.

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Oh shit, you’re right. I was confused af wondering why there was like 50 wings lol.

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That’s one lucky alignment shot indeed.

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Interesting article. But is that seriously the best AI-generated image they could find for this story?

Nevermind, I guess it probably is a real photo, just from a really weird perspective, so it’s like like the plane below it is merging into the plane in the foreground.

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I see where you’re coming from on it being AI generated, but I think it’s actually the wings and canards from a second plane perfectly behind the front one. If you look closely, you can see the nose as well.

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Oh, fair point.

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It doesn’t look AI generated

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Strange times that your comment is both wrong and perfectly sensible.

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fuck russia.

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It’s funny that these flights represent significant, painful maintenance costs for Russia and are basically training hours for nato

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