Baltic Sea Encounter • NATO Intercepts Russia (April 2020)

Belgian F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission intercept Russian fighter jets as they conducted low passes over a US Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea on April 17, 2020. The Belgian F-16s launched from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania then intercepted the Russian aircraft – two Su-24 Fencer attack jets, one Su-27 Flanker air superiority fighter, and one Su-30 Flanker-C multirole fighter – over the USS Donald Cook, a U.S. Arleigh Burke-class destroyer maneuvering in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Lithuania. Intercepts can be triggered when air traffic (civilian or military) do not respond to hails from air traffic controllers.

Film Credits: Courtesy Video, Natochannel

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