Tag: Quick Reaction Alert

Following bomb threat two Italian Typhoon jets perform supersonic scramble to escort Lebanese Airbus 320

Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoon in QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) were scrambled to…

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Nice air-to-air image of Russian Tu-95 Bear bomber intercepted off UK by RAF Typhoon

The RAF has released some cool images of the long-range Russian Tu-95…

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The crazy story of the Nigerian Air Force C-130H Hercules’s flight to Cambridge in 2011

The Nigerian C-130H-30 that had arrived at Cambridge in August 2011, was…

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[Update] Big misunderstanding sparks hijack alert at Amsterdam. F-16 fighter jets scrambled, Special Forces dispatched.

A miscommunication caused alarm across Europe and the Netherlands when the Dutch…

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French fighter jet and helicopter launched to intercept a paraglider approaching a nuclear plant

On May 2, a Greenpeace activist flying a paraglider, entered the forbidden…

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Typhoons sonic boom during terrorist hijack alarm causes chaos in UK

At 18.10LT on Thursday Apr. 12 emergency agency telephone switch boards started…

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