{"id":46940,"date":"2022-03-31T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=46940"},"modified":"2025-03-31T00:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:40:04","slug":"russian-military-planes-violated-swedish-airspace-carrying-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/31\/russian-military-planes-violated-swedish-airspace-carrying-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian military planes violated Swedish airspace carrying nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/03\/the-images-of-russian-combat-aircrafts-that-violated-the-swedish-airspace\/\">four Russian military planes violated Swedish airspace<\/a> east of the island of Gotland in the central Baltic Sea.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/03\/the-images-of-russian-combat-aircrafts-that-violated-the-swedish-airspace\/\">The images of Russian combat aircrafts that violated the Swedish airspace<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/25\/the-putin-regime-continues-its-campaign-of-terror-and-now-threatens-finland-and-sweden\/\">The Putin regime continues its campaign of terror and now threatens Finland and Sweden<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A brief Russian raid intercepted by Swedish JAS-39 Gripen fighters<\/big><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/03\/the-images-of-russian-combat-aircrafts-that-violated-the-swedish-airspace\/\">As you could already read in Defense and Aviation the next day<\/a>, the raid was carried out by <strong>two Sukhoi Su-27 fighters and two Sukhoi Su-24 attack planes<\/strong>, with the former acting as an escort for the latter. In response to that raid, <strong>the Swedish Air Force sent Saab JAS-39 Gripen fighters to intercept the intruders<\/strong>, although the raid was said to be brief.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d5353151.219177361!2d13.663371395267486!3d57.67323639612893!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x46f79b21976f2afd%3A0xf6a2b0aaed93f7a4!2sGotland!5e0!3m2!1ses!2ses!4v1646312810042!5m2!1ses!2ses\" width=\"665\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Following the usual procedure for interception missions, <strong>the Swedish fighters photographed the intruding aircraft.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forsvarsmakten.se\/sv\/aktuellt\/2022\/03\/ryska-stridsflygplan-krankte-svenskt-luftrum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Swedish Air Force published these two photos of the raid that same day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51915529536_89cd9b1300_k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51915529536_00e05c569b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 0px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51915851499_5f17119a54_k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51915851499_dfda817fbc_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:0px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><big>Swedish fighters confirmed that the Su-24 carried nuclear weapons<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tv4.se\/artikel\/6cNV5sPAaxdIgAsnItdVsK\/kaernvapenbestyckade-ryska-plan-kraenkte-svenskt-luftrum\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Swedish television channel TV4 reported that the two Russian Su-24s carried nuclear weapons at the time of the raid<\/a>. The news also points out that <em>\"<strong>the violation was a deliberate act with the aim of intimidating Sweden.<\/strong>\"<\/em> In fact, on February 25, a few days before that raid and the day after the start of the Ukraine invasion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/25\/the-putin-regime-continues-its-campaign-of-terror-and-now-threatens-finland-and-sweden\/\">Russia threatened Sweden and Finland with \"serious military consequences\" if they joined NATO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to TV4, the four Russian planes took off from the air base in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, located between Poland and Lithuania. <em>\"<strong>The two attack planes were, according to TV4 Nyheter sources, equipped with nuclear weapons. Something that the Russian pilots were clear about.<\/strong> Due to the conflict in Ukraine, the Swedish Air Force had increased the preparation and could see from the beginning that the Russian pilots were heading to Gotland,\"<\/em> TV4 says.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"The violation of Swedish territory lasted about a minute. <strong>The air force deployed two JAS-39 Gripens that could meet and take pictures of intruders. It was then that it was confirmed that the Russian planes were equipped with nuclear weapons.<\/strong> External observers see the incident as an expression of a clear strategy on the part of Russia\"<\/em>, adds that channel.<\/p>\n<p><big>The Swedish Armed Forces refuse to comment on the armament of those Su-24s<\/big><\/p>\n<p>TV4 has indicated that <strong>the Swedish Armed Forces have not wanted to comment on this information.<\/strong> They have neither confirmed nor denied it. This draws attention because what can be deduced from the TV4 information is that <strong>the Swedish Air Force would have concealed the detection of these nuclear weapons<\/strong>, about which it did not give any news in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forsvarsmakten.se\/sv\/aktuellt\/2022\/03\/ryska-stridsflygplan-krankte-svenskt-luftrum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its statement<\/a> that same day.<\/p>\n<p>On this point, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/inrikes\/uppgifter-ryska-planen-var-karnvapenbestyckade\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday the Swedish public television SVT echoed the news<\/a> by publishing these words from the Chief of the Swedish Air Force, Major General Carl-Johan Edstr\u00f6m: <em>\"<strong>Exactly how the Russian planes were armed, there is nothing to comment on the moment.<\/strong> What I want to point out is that if we had seen a greater threat to Sweden, we would have reported this.\"<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 2, four Russian military planes violated Swedish airspace east of the island of Gotland in the central Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[16205,16342,10731,11372,8143,9655,12941,10383,16206],"class_list":["post-46940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-gotland","tag-kaliningrad","tag-russia","tag-russian-air-force","tag-saab-jas-39-gripen","tag-sukhoi-su-24","tag-sukhoi-su-27","tag-sweden","tag-swedish-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}