The military alliance routinely scrambles fighter aircraft to intercept Russian warplanes that approach or fly near NATO airspace. NATO says the Russian planes it intercepts often fail to use their transponders and don't communicate with air traffic controllers or file a flight plan. NATO jets are sent up to identify them.

French and Romanian fighter jets under NATO command intercepted and monitored Russian bombers and escorts over the Baltic Sea, in a near-daily display of military vigilance. The encounters, part of NATO's Baltic air policing, come amid heightened tensions ...

In Baltic skies, there's a regular ballet of posturing between pilots from NATO nations and Russia. The military alliance regularly sends up fighter jets to intercept Russian flights that NATO says fail to adhere to international norms and endanger other flyers.

The political momentum behind the GlobalEye had been building for a while.

NATO intercepted Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets that flew over the Baltic Sea on Monday, a muscular display of air power on the alliance’s eastern flank away from the spotlight on the Middle East.

FRENCH fighter jets have been deployed four times in one week to intercept Russian aircraft near Nato airspace. Authorities scrambled four Rafale B fighters as part of an “enhanced Air

NATO plans to no longer rely on US aircraft as it renews its fleet of reconnaissance planes, according to sources within the military alliance. The future fleet of NATO's Airborne Warning and Control

NATO intercepted Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets that flew over the Baltic Sea on Monday, a muscular display of air power on the alliance's eastern flank away from the spotlight on the Middle East.