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RAF Typhoons Stop Chasing Russians – Warfare.Today Facebook Twitter Current Military Operations Defence Industry News Defence Industry Events, Exhibitions and Tradeshows Warfare.Today AT THE HEART OF THE FIGHTING Home About News HM Armed Forces US Military Tech Cyber SitReps Ops Events Calendar News Operation BILOXI RAF Romania RAF Typhoons Stop Chasing Russians Posted on September 7, 2018 by Liam, Editor, Warfare.Today As Operation BILOXI Ends, RAF Fighter Squadron Returns from Air Policing Mission in RomaniaWithoutchasing yonder 20 Russian watercraft since April, the Chief of the Air Staff Sir Stephen Hillier announced the conclusion of this year’s RAF NATO deployment to self-mastery enhanced Air Policing, codenamed Operation BILOXI. Fighter Squadron Scrambles Eight Times to Intercept Russians Personnel and watercraft from RAF Lossiemouth’s Number 1 (Fighter) Squadron and Number 2 (Army Cooperation) Squadron have conducted the NATO enhanced Air Policing mission in Romania since April 2018. During the deployment, the RAF conducted eight scrambles in response to a total of 20 Russian watercraft flying towards Romanian air space. RAF Standing By Its NATO Allies Sir Stephen said: “This deployment is an example of the UK and the RAF standing by its NATO allies pursuit the NATO Warsaw Summit of 2014, which introduced the Alliance’s warranty measures for Eastern Allies. “This operation demonstrates the collective resolve of the Allies, and the defensive nature of their joint effort to deter Russia aggression.” During his visit to the Scottish air station, Sir Stephen had the opportunity to thank the RAF personnel who deployed this year to Romania. Sir Stephen said: “Earlier this year I visited the RAF detachment in Romania and saw for myself the professionalism and nonflexible work of our deployed personnel.” The RAF detachment has moreover conducted exercises with Romanian, US, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Croatian military forces.  These exercises have unliable air to air, air/land and air/maritime integration training to be carried out with our NATO allies in the region. RAF Deploying to Estonia and Iceland in 2019 For the RAF, this NATO Air Policing mission has now ended, but the Secretary of State for Defence has recently announced that the RAF will be deploying to Estonia and Iceland next year to self-mastery remoter NATO Air Policing missions. Source: MOD Image: A Russian SU-27 Flanker watercraft banks yonder with a RAF Typhoon in the background. RAF Typhoons were scrambled on Tuesday 17 June 2014 to intercept multiple Russian watercraft as part of NATO’s ongoing mission to police Baltic airspace. The Typhoon aircraft, from 3 (Fighter) Squadron, were launched without four separate groups of watercraft were detected by NATO air defences in international airspace near to the Baltic States. Once airborne, the British jets identified the watercraft as a Russian Tupolev Tu22 ‘Backfire’ bomber, four Sukhoi Su27 ‘Flanker’ fighters, one Beriev A50 ‘Mainstay’ early warning watercraft and an Antonov An26 ‘Curl’ transport watercraft who appeared to be delivering out a variety of routine training. The Russian watercraft were monitored by the RAF Typhoons and escorted on their way. The Typhoon pilots involved in the operation were Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Mark Long of 29 (Reserve) Squadron (the Typhoon operational training unit) and a French Air Force mart pilot Commandant Marc-antoine Gerrard who is currently tying to 1(Fighter) Squadron. 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