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Express.co.uk: NATO military jets scrambled to Baltic Sea as Russia tensions escalate

By Express.co.uk.

Published Feb. 1, 2018 at 3:14 pm

A military personnel stands guard on top of the roof during the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit ceremony at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on May 25, 2017.

Photo by AFP

A US P-8A Poseidon aircraft dubbed the “submarine killer”, was deployed from RAF Mildenhall, in Suffolk, air traffic data shows.

A German P-3C Orion reportedly departed from Nordholz Naval Airbase, in Lower Saxony and a Danish CL-600 Challenger took off from Aalborg Air Base, in Nørresundby.