NATO has put its air units on high alert following a near miss between Russian and Polish aircraft, Reuters reported Monday.
A NATO official said that on Friday, a Polish jet patrolling over the Black Sea near Romania for the EU’s border agency, known as Frontex, had a dangerous encounter with a Russian aircraft.
“NATO air policing detachments were put on higher readiness in response to the dangerous behavior of a Russian military plane in the vicinity of a Polish Frontex aircraft over the Black Sea near Romania,” the NATO official said.
The Romanian Defense Ministry accused the Russian aircraft of acting recklessly. “This incident is a further proof of the provocative approach of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea,” the ministry said in a statement on the incident.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, there have been several dangerous encounters between NATO and Russian aircraft, including the incident in March that resulted in the downing of a US MQ-9 Reaper drone near Crimea.
According to The New York Times, a leaked Pentagon document revealed a near miss on September 29 that almost resulted in a Russian jet shooting down a manned British surveillance plane. US officials said the Russian pilot fired a missile after misinterpreting what a radar operator said, but the missile malfunctioned.
It sounds like they were trying to get back into the airspace where that drone went down. They really need that data for Ukraine. For the mother of all greatest offensives.
Exactly.
Why else is a Polish plane patrolling over the Black Sea 37 miles east of Romanian airspace?
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2023/05/07/Russian-jet-intercepts-Polish-plane-over-Black-Sea
The Russian pilot flew close enough that the turbulence caused the Polish plane to briefly lose control. Sphincters tightened on board the Polish plane. It was a little message: “I can make you soil yourself without firing a shot. Get the fuck out of here, bitch!”
I have no intention of getting my a– nuked over an “accident”.
What part of “you shall not pass” does NATO not understand?
Psychopaths are like insects that cannot hold their breath. Their instincts make them keep on hurting.
“… in response to the dangerous behavior of a Russian military plane …”
maybe he did a loop-de-loop or a barrel-roll
Swooped in like a brown eagle maybe.
When did the The Black Sea become part of the North Atlantic?
Technically it never did, but then going by this silly line how did Italy, Turkey, Poland or Rumania ever become a NATO members.
But given that they are and given that it was
What NATO was reacting to was a plane flying on patrol for EU i.e. one of its members experiencing what amounts to a near attack on one of their planes from Russia.