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The incident marked at least the third time in a week that Russian aircraft had been intercepted in the region.

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...

The plane belonged to the US Navy. The Russian fighter shadowed the US spy plane, the ministry said. After the US plane changed its course, the Russian fighter returned to its air base ...

Two Swedish Gripens stationed at Malbork Air Base in Poland intercepted a Russian IL-20 spy plane, known by its NATO code name Coot-A, on Thursday. Swedish air force spokeswoman Therese Akerstedt ...

Two Swedish fighter jets under NATO command were scrambled Thursday over the Baltic Sea to escort away a Russian reconnaissance plane that was approaching Polish airspace, Sweden's armed forces ...