Russian Intercept

Tupolev Tu-22M "Backfire" & Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker"

Kaliningrad is a small Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania. The Russians have a very narrow flight path between Finland and Estonia that they can use to fly to Kaliningrad. Sometimes their aircraft "stray" off course, people get excited and fighter jets get scrambled to go take a look. These photos are from an "incident" that happened about a month ago.

Update July 2020 replaced dead Picasa slideshow with image and link to Google Photos album.