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A French Rafale Jet Just Intercepted A Russian Spy Plane Over The Baltic
The Ilyushin IL-20 is a Soviet-era reconnaissance aircraft derived from the IL-18 turboprop airliner. Designed for signals intelligence (SIGINT), the Russian bird has the capability to intercept ...
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A French Rafale Jet Just Intercepted A Russian Spy Plane Over The Baltic
An escalating competition of mid-air interceptions has been ongoing for the last several months over the Baltic Sea between ...
AIR CARGO WEEK29d
An airfreight tale of two Koreas
The Tu-154 was widely used across the Soviet Union and its allies for both domestic and international flights. The Ilyushin Il-18 is a turboprop-powered airliner that was widely used in the 1950s and ...
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French Air and Space Force Rafale fighters intercepted a Russian Aerospace Forces signals intelligence aircraft over the Baltic
Upon interception, the Rafales identified the aircraft as an IL-20M Coot-A, a variant specialized in SIGINT/COMINT (signals intelligence and communications intelligence) missions, based on the ...