The F-35 pilots took off from Fighter Wing Skrydstrup and, upon reaching the Baltic Sea, visually confirmed that the aircraft, tracked by ground-based radars, was a Russian Il-20 Coot-A aircraft. As ...

The Ilyushin IL-20 is a Soviet-era reconnaissance aircraft derived from the IL-18 turboprop airliner. Designed for signals intelligence (SIGINT), the Russian bird has the capability to intercept ...

The Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) has marked a significant milestone in its defense capabilities as its F-35A fighter jets conducted their first Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) mission, intercepting a ...

The latest news on Denmark. For the first time, Denmark's Royal Air Force has launched its new F-35A Lightning II fighter jets on an operational mission, intercepting a Russian IL-20 electronic ...

On 12 March, they escorted two Russian Su-27 fighters, two supersonic Tu-22 bombers and one Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft. Later that same day, NATO planes were again dispatched to identify two Tu-22 ...

German Eurofighter Typhoons were scrambled to identify the Ilyushin Il-20 reconnaissance plane, which was subsequently “escorted” back toward the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, from where it was ...

MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/. The chief military investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case into the crash of Russia’s Il-20 plane above the ...

PARIS, February 27. /TASS/. French Air Force jets escorted a Russian Il-20 plane near the Estonian border, the General Staff of the French Armed Forces said. "Mirage 2000-5 aircraft scrambled to ...