NATO fighter jets in the Baltic Sea have intercepted and escorted Russian aircraft in recent weeks. According to the Ukrainian media European Truththese Russian fighters “They were violating the flight rules“.
According to the newspaper the fact that the Atlantic alliance has sent planes to intercept Russian planes “is significant” because “it is becoming more frequent“that Moscow violates international airspace regulations. “This may signal a change in the tactics of war.”
One of these planes, sighted on December 23, “violated international airspace from the mainland of Moscow to the Kaliningrad region, in Poland, without a flight plan.” “The aircraft had its radar transponder on and was in contact with the regional area control center,” the post states.
According to NATO sources consulted by the British newspaper, “Russia violated international airspace rules up to seven times in a week last month“These incidents have become increasingly frequent in recent months, with Sweden, Finland, the United Kingdom and other countries reporting sightings of Russian aircraft.”
Ukraine shields its airspace
Former Deputy Minister of the Interior of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, welcomes the fact that “Ukrainian experts have implemented the latest technologies to protect their airspace from Russian attacks.” One of the founders of this technology, Hennadii Suldin, describes in the publication what they call “human radar“.
“It consists of a mobile phone application and an artificial intelligence model that allows Ukrainian citizens to report flying objects they see or hear with the push of a button,” he explains. In addition, engineers have developed “acoustic detection technologies that have proven to be “extremely effective”:
