Jonas Gahr Støre, Russia | Strong protests against Russian air maneuver: Not happened in Norway since the Cold War
COPENHAGEN (Nettavisen): No later than Tuesday, NTB wrote that two German fighter planes were to intercept a Russian-sent plane. The Russian plane was identified in international airspace off the island of Rügen on Saturday. The German fighter jets followed the Russian plane away from Germany.
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Last week, Denmark and Sweden went out and said that a Russian surveillance plane violated the countries’ airspace.
– It is unacceptable to violate other countries’ airspace, says Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre to Nettavisen.
He is in Copenhagen to meet India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attend an Indo-Nordic summit in the Danish capital.
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– Sometimes airspace can be violated due to accident or incorrect navigation, other times it can be a deliberate act to mark its positions. Then it is a country’s right and duty to respond to it. It is something Norway is ready to do at any time of the day with planes that can mark where our borders go, says Støre to Nettavisen.
To Nettavisen, Støre says that if other countries violate our borders at sea, on land or in the air, the government will address it diplomatically.
– That is what we have embassies and foreign ministers for, and sometimes also prime ministers to do, says Støre.
– Tongue straight in the mouth
– Most countries will fly out and cut off planes that are approaching their own airspace. It is probably more precise to say that you identify the foreign planes, rather than cutting them off, says Lars Peder Haga to Nettavisen. He is an associate professor at the Air War School and an expert on Russian air power and military power, doctrine and operations.
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Statistics from the Armed Forces show that Norwegian fighter planes are constantly and constantly on the wings to identify approaching planes.
Emergencies and identifications last five years:
- 2021: 34 emergencies with 58 identified aircraft.
- 2020: 50 calls with 96 identified aircraft.
- 2019: 38 calls with 83 identified aircraft.
- 2018: 57 calls with 100 identified aircraft.
- 2017: 37 emergencies with 59 identified aircraft.
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What is an “unknown aircraft”?
By an unknown aircraft we mean an airplane, helicopter or other aircraft that flies with a rejected transponder or transmitter. Norwegian aircraft radars will detect these aircraft, but civilian air traffic controllers and the Armed Forces’ Control and Warning Center will not know exactly what kind of aircraft this is or who is flying them. For Norway, such unknown aircraft are mainly Russian military aircraft on various aircraft and training missions along Norwegian airspace.
It is important to emphasize that there are no dramatic Russian flights and Russia is allowed to fly such missions. Nevertheless, it is important for Norway and NATO to find and identify the aircraft. We do this to have an overview of frequency and flight patterns, but also to show that we have control and follow the air traffic.
Every year, the Armed Forces launches around 50 such QRA missions (scrambles), and we identify around 70 aircraft a year.
– It is important to keep your tongue straight in your mouth when we talk about this, because violation of air space is something else. Then you fly into another country’s national airspace. You are not allowed to fly there without an agreement. The national airspace follows the land borders, at sea it means the border for the territorial waters, says Haga.
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Stine Barclay Gaasland is a lieutenant colonel and communications manager in the Air Force, to Nettavisen she says that identifying foreign aircraft is a common and expected activity.
– There’s nothing abnormal about it. The planes we identify are in international airspace, outside Norwegian territory, says Gaasland to Nettavisen.
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Continuous preparedness
At any given time, it stands for Norwegian F-35 fighter jets on Evenes, ready to move out to identify foreign aircraft in international airspace, outside Norwegian territory. From the alarm, the Norwegian fighter jets must be on their way within a maximum of 15 minutes, regardless of the time of day.
The planes are on standby for NATO, and it is NATO through its air operations center in Germany that decides whether the Norwegian planes will move out.
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– When Russia violates airspace, it can be due to several things, it can be carelessness and incorrect navigation, something that is not quite straightforward in the Baltic Sea. But it can also simply be due to a lack of respect for others’ airspace, which is also unprofessional, says Lars Peder Haga.
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According to him, it is relatively common in Russia violate Estonian airspace when flying down the Baltic Sea. Instead of staying in international airspace, Russian planes cut the bend and sweep into Estonian airspace.
– It is an expression that you do not have respect for that limit. On the other hand, the Russians have not violated Norwegian airspace since the Cold War, and it is a signal that the Russians respect the Norwegian border and are concerned about having a professional relationship with Norway, says Haga.
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