– Status-6 Archer83Able) September 21, 2021 RF-81746, Hex 1B3F52) appeared today on FR24 during its flight over the Baltic Sea (presumably an escort of Russian strategic bombers). Unprecedented it looks like 🇷🇺 #RuAF Sukhoi Su-35S (Reg. Interestingly, at least one Su-35S showed up on, marking the very first time (to our knowledge) that a Russian flanker could be tracked online. The Finnish Air Force F-18 and the Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripens were also launched and intercepted the Tu-160.
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The video released by the Russian MOD shows some of the warplanes that were dispatched to identify and shadow the Russian “package” while it was operating in international airspace: you can clearly see an Italian Air Force typhoon currently targeting Baltic Eagle II is based in Amari, where it replaced the F-35As (the Russian MOD press release mentioned the Italian fighters but incorrectly identified them as F-16s) and the F-16s of the Royal Danish Air Force. to support Baltic Air Policing (BAP) with scramble. Like the last time the Tu-160 passed from Engels-2 Air Base in Saratov, Oblast, in southwest Russia, the Russian Long Range Aviation (LRA) voyage in the Baltic caused several NATO, Finnish and Swedish planes in QRA (Quick Reaction Alert). The missile carrier bombers were escorted by two Su-35S aircraft of the aerospace forces and two Su-27 fighters of the naval aviation of the Baltic Fleet. According to the Russian MOD, the two strategic missile carriers conducted a planned flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. Two Tu-160 Blackjacks from the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out an 8-hour mission that brought the bombers out of the Baltic states on September 21, 2021. NATO, Finnish and Swedish fighters shadowed the Russian blackjacks escorted by Su-35s. Two Tu-160s have flown over the Baltic States. In the lower left field a screenshot from. This would make the jets even deadlier.Some screenshots from the Russian MOD video show the Tu-160, the Su-35S and an Italian Eurofighter Typhoon. The Russians are also reportedly considering arming the Blackjacks with Kh-47M2 Kinzhal (‘Dagger’) nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles with an estimated range of 1,200 miles and a speed of up to Mach 10. The missiles are accommodated on multi-station launchers in each of the two weapons bays. The Blackjack is reportedly the largest and heaviest combat aircraft, the fastest bomber in use capable of hitting well over Mach 2 (1,535 mph), and the largest and heaviest variable-sweep wing airplane, ever flown.Īccording to, the jet holds 44 world records. It can carry nuclear and conventional weapons including long-range nuclear missiles. The latest model is the Tu-160M which was delivered after being thoroughly upgraded, in 2014. The Tu-160 was the last strategic bomber designed by the Soviet Union, entering service in 1987 and designed to compete with the U.S. The flight coincides with US preparting to deploy four (non-nuclear!) B-1 bombers to Norway for the first time. Russia sends two Tu-160 nuclear-capable bombers on 12-hour flight over Barents, Greenland and Norwegian seas. Unlike to conventionally armed US B-1Bs now in Norway, the Russian Blackjacks are nuclear-capable. They identified the Russian aircraft in international airspace up north. Their bomber mission occurred on the same day as the major Norwegian defense exercise Arctic Hawk 21, which involved all of the country’s military branches: Navy, Army, Home Guard, Air Force and Cyber Defense.Ī spokesperson from Norway’s Joint Headquarters told thebarentsobserver: “Our QRA F-16s were scrambled. The Russians planes were tracked by NATO and intercepted by two Norwegian F-16 fighters on Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) based at Bodø Air Base. According to the Defense Ministry website: “Fighter escort was provided by the crews of the naval aviation of the Northern Fleet.” The Russian Ministry of Defense released a video of the flight earlier in the month. Then, according to the Twitter user “Hunters Note”, who tracks military aviation signals, the aircraft flew west in the Greenland Sea near Jan Mayen before heading north of Svalbard, across Franz Josef Land towards Novaya Zemlya where another pair of MiG-31 from Rogachevo Air Base escorted the strategic bombers over the Kara Sea en route south. The strategic bombers flew out to the Barents Sea from the Kola Peninsula before the route continued further north and west outside Norway.
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