The defense: Unprecedented exercise – Norrköping Newspapers

The defense: Unprecedented exercise – Norrköping Newspapers

Several bomber aircraft of type TU-95 flew out of the Gulf and out over the southern Baltic Sea for four days straight.

-There we have not seen before, says Defence Forces team leader Göran Mårtensson.

The exercise involved including other bombers and fighter aircraft and marine forces under the Armed Forces.

Could collided

If the plan were armed, what they practiced against, what goals or which country, want Mårtensson do not say.

The Armed Forces also explained in more detail the incident last Friday when a Russian signals intelligence planes flew without turned transponders in the direction of a civil SAS-chartered plane as lifting from Kastrup.

If not Armed Forces had warned air traffic in Malmö, so that civil plane could change altitude and course, they could almost collided under the Armed Forces.

Mårtensson says that the Armed Forces have a good overview of aviation in the immediate area and discovers risks timely and alerts.

The Armed Forces do not want to tell me what to draw conclusions about why the Russian airplane can fly without transponders turned on, or if such incidents have become more common.

We see that the hands, says Mårtensson.

Odd parlance

During the afternoon there is a debate in parliament, among others, Foreign Minister Margot Wallström (S).

Before the wonder försvarsutskotetts Chairman Allan Widman (FP) of Sweden will take any action since the Russian Ambassador in Denmark suggested that the Swedes smoked too much weed. Ambassador Mikhail Vanin accused yesterday Swedes for that to often visit Christiania. It was a comment on the government’s claim of a submarine in Swedish waters, and air incident with the Russian SIGINT plane. “As an example of diplomatic language appears statement as odd. The impression is that Russia wants to nurture its relations with Sweden,” believes Widman in his written question to Wallström.

The defense announced Tuesday that it will need considerably more money – billions annually – than what was promised if we are to live up to the politicians’ hopes.