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NATO fighter jets recently scrambled to intercepted a Russian military plane flying over the Baltic Sea with its transponder “switched of.
Source: Ukraine Today http://uatoday.tv/politics/russian-military-plane-intercepted-over-baltic-425170.html
The plane was identified as an An-22 military transport aircraft was flying from Russia to Kaliningrad. It has a range of just over 5000 miles.
The Antonov An-22 “Antei” (Ukrainian: Ан-22 Антей; Russian: Ан-22 Антей) (NATO reporting name “Cock“) is a heavy military transport aircraft designed by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Powered by four turboprop engines each driving a pair of contra-rotating propellers .
NATO has reported a sharp increase in incursions by Russian military aircraft over Baltic airspace over the last 12 months. This is just the latest in a string of incidents that points to rising tensions between NATO and Russia in the last few months.