俄罗斯侦察机侵犯北约领空

2014-11-06 18:57:19来源：网络

　　A Russian maritime spy plane flew into Estonianterritory on Tuesday in the most serious violationof Nato airspace by Moscow since the end of the coldwar.Fighters were scrambled from Lithuania – whereNato’s Baltic air policing force is stationed – and fromDenmark and Sweden as the aircraft, an Ilyushin 20 “Coot”, armed with an array of high-techsurveillance and electronic warfare equipment,circled the Baltic sea.Two military officials withknowledge of the incident said that Nato sovereignairspace had been violated.An Estonian official saidthe Russian spy plane flew more than 500m into Estonian airspace for about a minute onTuesday close to the large, inhabited islands of Hiiumaa and Saaremaa off the Baltic state’swest coast.According to a Nato military officer, the spy plane took off from Kaliningrad.“At12:53pm. CET the IL-20 approached Estonian airspace from the northeast,” he told theFinancial Times. “I’m not aware of any incursions into the airspace patrolled by Nato other thanthe brief incident yesterday.”The spy plane was intercepted and escorted out of Estonianairspace by Portuguese F-16 fighters, based in Lithuania as part of Nato’s Baltic air policingmission.Estonia has reported five previous airspace violations by Russia but all have beenabove the tiny uninhabited island of Vaindloo, located in the middle of the Gulf of Finland.Although viewed seriously by Tallinn, such incidents, unlike the latest violation, have not beena cause of serious alarm among Nato chiefs.An Ilyushin spy plane flying in the Baltic alsotriggered Nato jets to be scrambled from their base at Siauliai on Monday but did not pass intoactual Nato airspace.Nato officials are unclear as to whether the incidents are connected withthe Swedish hunt for a suspected Russian submarine in waters close to Stockholm.But theIlyushin spy planes are ideally equipped for submarine hunting and communicationsinterception and jamming.Swedish officials have not yet publicly disclosed whether they knowwhich foreign power the submarine belongs to, though few have any doubt of it being Russian.The Swedish military has said it believes the sub to be hiding, possibly damaged, among thethousands of islands and islets in the Stockholm archipelago.

　　周二，一架俄罗斯海上侦察机飞入爱沙尼亚领空。这是自冷战结束以来，俄罗斯政府对北约(Nato)领空的最严重侵犯。在这架装备有高科技监控与电子战设备的伊尔-20(Ilyushin 20)“黑鸭(Coot)”飞机环绕波罗的海飞行之际，北约方面从立陶宛(北约波罗的海空中治安巡逻武装力量的所在地)、丹麦和瑞典出动了战斗机。两名了解这一事件的军官表示，北约领空遭到了侵犯。一名爱沙尼亚军官表示，这架俄罗斯侦察机在周二进入爱沙尼亚领空后，飞行超过500米的距离。当时，飞机靠近了这个波罗的海国家西岸的希乌马岛和萨雷马岛，这两个岛都是有人居住的大面积岛屿。根据一名北约军官的说法，这架侦察机是从加里宁格勒起飞的。这名军官告诉英国《金融时报》：“在中欧时间下午12点53分，这架伊尔-20从东北方接近了爱沙尼亚领空。在我的印象中，除了昨天的短暂事件之外，北约巡逻的空域从来未曾遭遇这样的入侵。”这架侦察机遭到多架葡萄牙F-16战斗机的拦截，并被护送出爱沙尼亚领空。这几架F-16战斗机就驻扎在立陶宛，以执行北约的波罗的海空中治安巡逻任务。在此之前，爱沙尼亚曾报告了5次俄罗斯侵犯领空的现象，不过当时后者入侵的领空都在芬兰海湾中间一个无人居住的Vaindloo小岛上空。尽管爱沙尼亚政府认为那几次事件也十分严重，但北约从并未像周二这次这样发出严重警告。周一，一架在波罗的海飞行的伊尔侦察机也曾令北约出动了驻扎在希奥利艾基地的飞机，不过这架侦察机并未实际进入北约领空。目前，北约官员仍不清楚这一系列事件是否与瑞典在斯德哥尔摩附近海域搜寻疑似俄罗斯潜艇的事件有关。今年，北约曾多次出动战斗机拦截接近北约领空的俄罗斯飞机，拦截次数已比2013年全年多了两倍。

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