Air Forces Chief of Staff General Laurian Anastasof says fighters were scrambled four times this year and no Russian aircraft came close ti Romania's air space. Anastasof explained on Monday that Russian aircraft that advance more than 100 km from Crimean coast could become worrying to the NATO. "The distances of these flights is generally over 100 km. The distance from here to Crimea is 380 km, and if a Russian aircraft takes off from a Crimean base right now and moves 100 km away from the Crimean coast, it already becomes a worrisome flight to the Alliance. At 20 miles outside the national information area, the NATO procedure compels us to scramble our aircraft. It happened four times this year. I repeat, no Russian aircraft has come close to the national airspace," General Anastasof said at the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in the southeastern county of Constanta.
There were situations, he said, when near the national airspace there were flights of the Russian Federation that have prompted the Campia Turzii or Mihail Kogalniceanu air base to scramble their aircraft. "The airspace was, is and will always be defended by the Romanian Air Forces with air means or surface-to-air missiles," the general added.
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