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Italian Typhoon fighter-jet pilots stationed with NATO's Baltic Air Police (BAP) in Lithuania scrambled to the skies above the Baltic Sea to intercept a Russian military air refueler Ilyushin IL-78, the National Armed Forces (NBS) announced on the official NBS Twitter feed Tuesday.
NATO Baltic Air Policing QRA ITA Typhoon jets on 10 MAR scrambled to intercept RU Armed Forces Il-78 over the Baltic Sea.
— NBS (@Latvijas_armija) March 10, 2015
This particular type of aircraft was intercepted twice in January of this year and four of the planes were also part of the squadron of Russian military airplanes over the North Sea, as tracked by Norway's Air Force at the end of October 2014.
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