RAF fighter jets scrambled to investigate Russian planes

[dunkace]

[QUOTE]Fighter jets were scrambled after two Russian military aircraft were spotted approaching UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets took off from RAF Leuchars in St Andrews, Fife, on Wednesday.

The jets were sent to investigate the Russian planes, which are believed to have turned away shortly afterwards.
RAF fighter planes were scrambled to incidents such as this eight times last year, an MOD spokesman said.

The spokesman said the jets were launched to "determine the identity of unknown aircraft" that approached the north of Scotland and "could not be identified by other means".
He said: "The aircraft were subsequently identified as Russian military aircraft. The Russian military aircraft remained in international airspace at all times as they are perfectly entitled to do so.

The spokesman added that Russian military flights have never entered UK sovereign airspace without authorisation.
Meanwhile a Royal Navy warship is shadowing a Russian destroyer as it sails past the UK.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27130125[/url]

That would explain the two jets that flew over my school yesterday afternoon.

[Novangel]

What is the point of these incursions/almost incursions? Scanning for weak points in their airspace? Response times? Dick waving?

[Corn]

[QUOTE=Novangel;44630481]What is the point of these incursions/almost incursions? Scanning for weak points in their airspace? Response times? Dick waving?[/QUOTE]

All of the above

[miyo]

Dutch jets went too but raf jets were already there so they left