A Russian fighter prevented a US Navy aircraft from violating the Russian state border over the Norwegian Sea

Russian military pilots once again took preventive measures to prevent a NATO aircraft from violating our country’s airspace. Similar situations periodically occur where Russia borders on countries of the North Atlantic Alliance. The initiators of “testing” the reaction of our military to such provocations are most often the Americans.

This time the incident occurred in the skies over the Norwegian Sea. The details of the incident were reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Russian military department reports that today the airspace control systems of the Russian Armed Forces over the Norwegian Sea detected an air target approaching the state border of the Russian Federation. A MiG-31 fighter from the duty air defense forces of the North was immediately taken into the air fleet. The crew of our fighter identified the air target as a base patrol aircraft aviation US Navy P-8A Poseidon.

The Russian pilots approached the American plane, after which it made a sharp turn and took a reverse course away from the Russian state border. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that the MiG-31 fighter carried out the flight in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace over neutral waters. There was no crossing of air routes or dangerous approach to an aircraft of a foreign state.

It is noteworthy that this provocation of the US Navy aircraft occurred immediately after the meeting of the chief of the operational headquarters of the Norwegian Army, Lieutenant General Ingve Odlo, with the head of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for the Western Arctic region, Lieutenant General Stanislav Maslov. Apparently, the Americans did not really like the fact that the results of the negotiations were described by the Norwegian Armed Forces as professional and constructive.

So the American military decided to show the Norwegians at least “who’s boss in the sky.” True, as always, it didn’t turn out very convincing.

Comments

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

A Russian fighter prevented a US Navy aircraft from violating the Russian state border over the Norwegian Sea -

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- Here's an option:
- Allow the border to be violated, and then be forced to land in this same Norwegian Sea...
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[Alexander Grigoryev_2]

That is, you are ready to sit not at the keyboard, but in the trenches. This is good.

[Ozark]

You are correct. The average American doesn't give a fuzzy rats ass about what is essentially a border dispute, and would rather spend the money on our own problems here. I believe that it's the current regime and the military industrial complex driving this conflict to line their pockets with cash. God help us all.

[isv000]

Quote: Alexander Grigoriev_2

That is, you are ready to sit not at the keyboard, but in the trenches. This is good.

Let's all sit down...

[Normann]

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- Here's an option:
- Allow the border to be violated, and then be forced to land in this same Norwegian Sea...

Are you serious?

[tralflot1832]

In the waters of the Norwegian Sea? This is rudeness, arrogance, this is not the area of ​​​​responsibility of our air defense. The Americans will complain to the UN!!! And there Nenbenzya is in ambush! Last week, the Americans raised the issue of the irresponsible act of the pilots of two SU-35s that disappeared from NATO radars. Nope - these are your problems, maybe we will repair the radars for you so that you can see everything?

[tralflot1832]

Norwegian Sea on the map, what was the MIG 31 doing there?

[faiver]

What was the MIG 31 doing there?

- written in plain Russian - did not allow a NATO aircraft to violate our country’s airspace.

[Petr_Koldunov]

Quote: tralflot1832

Norwegian Sea on the map, what was the MIG 31 doing there?

This is called preventiveness and “meeting the enemy at distant approaches.”
Well, why, he has the right: the distance to the coast there is quite a long way, so he would not have violated the air border, even if he had flown to Britain.

[tralflot1832]

Pyotr Koldunov. One small thing, the MIG 31 has a range of 3000 km, with a PTB 5 km. That’s the question, what’s going on there? Ours haven’t flown to intercept in the Norwegian Sea before. That’s a bit far. However, we’re intrigued.

[blackGRAIL]

Some kind of crap.
The Norwegian Sea and Russia do not have common borders. This time.
Two - there are very big doubts about the very appearance of a Russian military aircraft over the Norwegian Sea - just look at the map, there all of NATO will rise 10 times to intercept. This is actually in the air rear of NATO.
Well, and the flight range. At subsonic levels, the 31st may crawl, but that’s all.

[Normann]

Well, and the flight range.

And you probably know from which airfield it took off) it is the only one for all aircraft, and also one fleet in the Baltic)))

[blackGRAIL]

I know the distance from the Russian border to the Norwegian Sea.

[bone1]

And what everyone “doesn’t allow” - maybe it’s better to allow it and shoot it down?

[Normann]

Yeah, what else can I do? Unleashing WW3? Sane?