Air Policing jets on 7 APR in international airspace above the Baltic Sea near LV border identified RU AF 1x Il-76.
— NBS (@Latvijas_armija) April 7, 2015
So far this year the NBS has reported already 30 incidents altogether where Russian military units, whether ships or planes, have strayed close enough to Latvian territorial waters and airspace to warrant their identification and observation.
The Russian air force planes in particular rarely, if ever, use their transponders in flight, causing concern among military and civil aviation authorities alike about the hazard to passenger planes unaware of their presence.
