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    Russia Scrambles Su-27 Fighter to Intercept US Air Force Aircraft Over Black Sea

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    The intercept is the latest incident involving NATO and Russian aircraft flying near 's maritime borders, with similar occurrences taking place regularly from the Barents and Baltic seas in the north and west to the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East.

    A Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet has been scrambled to intercept a US surveillance aircraft flying over the Black Sea, the Russian Defence Ministry announced.

    The US aircraft involved was said to be a Boeing RC-135 spy plane, with the Su-27 scrambled after ground-based radars had detected it as it approached the Russian maritime border.

    According to the , after the US plane turned around and moved away from the border, the Su-27 returned to its home airbase.

    As it commonly does after such flights, the ministry stressed that the Su-27's Saturday flight “was carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace.” The Russian military started to emphasise this point in its press releases after the Pentagon began accusing Russian pilots of “irresponsible” and “unsafe” manoeuvres during intercepts, including the occasional approach to within just metres of US planes' wings or fuselage to ‘encourage' them to change course.

    Saturday's incident is just the latest example of the long-running tensions which have existed between Russia and NATO since the wake of the Ukraine crisis in early 2014. In addition to beefing up troop deployments in Eastern Europe and…

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