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This weekend the aircraft number 84 was identified, confirms to the newspaper the headquarters of the Armed Forces (FOH).
Major Brynjar Stordal claims it happened during emergency number 41, as part of NATO emergency preparedness (QRA).
– Not very common
– It is not new for planes like this to embark on a long journey in our immediate areas, but it is not very common for them to have cruises that last so long and travel so far west and south, Stordal writes in an email to Nationen.
Last year, the defense had to move 38 times on short notice against Russian planes along the Norwegian coast. The aircraft in question this weekend were two strategic bombers of the type TU-142. The plane was identified by Norwegian F-16s from Bodø, who were routinely in international airspace over maritime areas west of Norway.
Much less than in 2018
Stordal points out that this is something that Russia has every opportunity to do, as long as they remain in international airspace.
Although the number of calls and IDs is higher than last year, it is still much lower than in 2018, when 57 calls were encrypted and 100 IDs, according to Nationen.
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