That is the second RAF fighter jets intercept Russian warplanes approaching UK airspace.

Dramatic footage launched by Russia exhibits their pilots within the cockpit because the Storm fighters shadow them from a detailed distance.

The jets had been scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland yesterday to escort the ‘Bear’ strategic bombers off the northern coast of the British Isles.

A Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker was additionally launched from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to accompany the Typhoons. At no level did the Russian plane enter UK airspace.

The incident got here simply hours earlier than Boris Johnson spoke on the cellphone with Vladimir Putin, warning him that invading Ukraine can be a ‘tragic miscalculation’.

Two Tu-95 strategic missile carriers performed a flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, escorted by RAF Eurofighter Typhoons
A Russian pilot is filmed flying close to UK airspace (Image: Ministry of Defence/east2west)
Two Tu-95 strategic missile carriers performed a flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, escorted by RAF Eurofighter Typhoons
Russia practiced aerial refuelling in the course of the flight (Image: Ministry of Defence/east2west )
Two Tu-95 strategic missile carriers performed a flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, escorted by RAF Eurofighter Typhoons
A Storm fighter jet is filmed escorting Russia’s propeller-powered warplane off northern Scotland (Image: Ministry of Defence/east2west )
ZK436 Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 on its final approach into RAF Coningsby, UK on 5 August 2020. (Photo by Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto)
RAF Storm fighter jets often intercept Russian planes close to UK airspace (Image: MI Information/NurPhoto)

A Russian ministry spokesperson mentioned: ‘In the middle of the flight, the crews of Tu-95 plane practiced aerial refuelling. The flight time was about 15 hours.

‘At some levels of the route, the Russian strategic missile carriers had been accompanied by Eurofighter Storm fighters of the British Air Pressure.’

‘Bear’ is the Nato reporting identify for the Tu-95 and Tu-142 strategic bomber. The super-loud Tu-95 first flew 70 years in the past and is the one propeller-powered bomber nonetheless in operational use right this moment.

The Tu-95s took off from Engels air base within the Saratov area, with the Tu-142 flying from Kipelovo in Vologda area.

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