April 1, 2021
Monday was an unusually busy day for the NATO alliance fighter jets as they scrambled 10 times to intercept Russian military flights over the North Atlantic, North Sea, Black Sea, and Baltic Sea within a span of six hours.
According to a NATO press release, the allied aircraft were scrambled 10 times on Monday to shadow this “unusual peak of flights” by Russian military aircraft, intercepting six different groups near alliance airspace in six hours.
“Intercepting multiple groups of Russian aircraft demonstrates NATO forces’ readiness and capability to guard Allied skies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year,” said Brigadier General Andrew Hansen, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations at Allied Air Command, Ramstein, Germany.