俄羅斯偵察機侵犯北約領空

A Russian maritime spy plane flew into Estonian territory on Tuesday in the most serious violation of Nato airspace by Moscow since the end of the cold ters were scrambled from Lithuania – where Nato’s Baltic air policing force is stationed – and from Denmark and Sweden as the aircraft, an Ilyushin 20 “Coot”, armed with an array of high-tech surveillance and electronic warfare equipment, circled the Baltic military officials with knowledge of the incident said that Nato sovereign airspace had been Estonian official said the Russian spy plane flew more than 500m into Estonian airspace for about a minute on Tuesday close to the large, inhabited islands of Hiiumaa and Saaremaa off the Baltic state’s west rding to a Nato military officer, the spy plane took off from Kaliningrad.“At 12:53pm. CET the IL-20 approached Estonian airspace from the northeast,” he told the Financial Times. “I’m not aware of any incursions into the airspace patrolled by Nato other than the brief incident yesterday.”The spy plane was intercepted and escorted out of Estonian airspace by Portuguese F-16 fighters, based in Lithuania as part of Nato’s Baltic air policing nia has reported five previous airspace violations by Russia but all have been above the tiny uninhabited island of Vaindloo, located in the middle of the Gulf of Finland. Although viewed seriously by Tallinn, such incidents, unlike the latest violation, have not been a cause of serious alarm among Nato Ilyushin spy plane flying in the Baltic also triggered Nato jets to be scrambled from their base at Siauliai on Monday but did not pass into actual Nato officials are unclear as to whether the incidents are connected with the Swedish hunt for a suspected Russian submarine in waters close to the Ilyushin spy planes are ideally equipped for submarine hunting and communications interception and ish officials have not yet publicly disclosed whether they know which foreign power the submarine belongs to, though few have any doubt of it being Russian. The Swedish military has said it believes the sub to be hiding, possibly damaged, among the thousands of islands and islets in the Stockholm archipelago.

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週二，一架俄羅斯海上偵察機飛入愛沙尼亞領空。這是自冷戰結束以來，俄羅斯政府對北約(Nato)領空的最嚴重侵犯。在這架裝備有高科技監控與電子戰設備的伊爾-20(Ilyushin 20)“黑鴨(Coot)”飛機環繞波羅的海飛行之際，北約方面從立陶宛（北約波羅的海空中治安巡邏武裝力量的所在地）、丹麥和瑞典出動了戰鬥機。兩名瞭解這一事件的軍官表示，北約領空遭到了侵犯。一名愛沙尼亞軍官表示，這架俄羅斯偵察機在週二進入愛沙尼亞領空後，飛行超過500米的距離。當時，飛機靠近了這個波羅的海國家西岸的希烏馬島和薩雷馬島，這兩個島都是有人居住的大面積島嶼。根據一名北約軍官的說法，這架偵察機是從加里寧格勒起飛的。這名軍官告訴英國《金融時報》：“在中歐時間下午12點53分，這架伊爾-20從東北方接近了愛沙尼亞領空。在我的印象中，除了昨天的短暫事件之外，北約巡邏的空域從來未曾遭遇這樣的入侵。”這架偵察機遭到多架葡萄牙F-16戰鬥機的攔截，並被護送出愛沙尼亞領空。這幾架F-16戰鬥機就駐紮在立陶宛，以執行北約的波羅的海空中治安巡邏任務。在此之前，愛沙尼亞曾報告了5次俄羅斯侵犯領空的現象，不過當時後者入侵的領空都在芬蘭海灣中間一個無人居住的Vaindloo小島上空。儘管愛沙尼亞政府認爲那幾次事件也十分嚴重，但北約從並未像週二這次這樣發出嚴重警告。週一，一架在波羅的海飛行的伊爾偵察機也曾令北約出動了駐紮在希奧利艾基地的飛機，不過這架偵察機並未實際進入北約領空。目前，北約官員仍不清楚這一系列事件是否與瑞典在斯德哥爾摩附近海域搜尋疑似俄羅斯潛艇的事件有關。今年，北約曾多次出動戰鬥機攔截接近北約領空的俄羅斯飛機，攔截次數已比2013年全年多了兩倍。